Everything was created by numbers, weights, and measures (Isaac Newton).

Never before have subjects of all kinds sparked so many divisions and quarrels within families, friend circles, social networks, and the media.

This proliferation of opinions and oppositions is reinforced by the exponential circulation of information and an increasingly complex world, which lends itself to multiple interpretations.

While numbers are often not enough to fully describe an issue, and while the choice of numbers itself constitutes a bias, they nevertheless help to objectify analysis, enable comparisons, and provide perspective.

NumOnly is thus intended to translate information into numerical language, without unfounded or subjective interpretation.

But while “numbers don’t lie, it sometimes happens that liars use numbers” (Jacques Duhamel).

This is why the sources, always cited, are carefully selected based on criteria of reliability and relevance.

These sources may include:

  • Public institutions, national or international,
  • Non-profit organizations or associations,
  • General or specialized news outlets and magazines,
  • National and international research and survey institutes,
  • Other authors of research, reports, and analyses,
  • Encyclopedic websites.

The reliability of the information is systematically verified through consistency checks of data, comparisons between different sources, and consideration of criticisms or contradictions.

In case of doubt, the information is not published.

The themes are broad, ranging from the environment, to societal issues, to the world of the internet, to science, to economics, to geopolitics, to sports, to media…

The publications can:

  • describe in a few figures the stakes and scope of an issue,
  • compare the stakes, regions, and societies,
  • present developments over time,
  • mention opinion surveys to measure societal changes,
  • provide inherently numerical information: incomes, prices, indices, rates,…

Articles are always related to a current topic or recent publication.There is no pre-defined format, but each article must be concise, get to the point. It should be read in less than 3 to 4 minutes and of course, since we are at NumOnly, it must be illustrated with immediately significant figures.

Do not forget, NumOnly has the modest ambition to deliver you, in synthesis, simplicity and rationality, the state of the world!

Format :

There is no pre-defined format, but each article must be concise, get to the point. It should be read in less than 3 to 4 minutes and of course, since we are at NumOnly, it must be illustrated with immediately significant figures.

Do not forget, NumOnly has the modest ambition to deliver you, in synthesis, simplicity and rationality, the state of the world!