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Politicians and journalists frequently cite statistics that are misleading, derived from dubious studies, or simply plucked out of thin air. So the U.K. has done something novel: they’ve created a new government agency to ensure that those all-important stats aren't fudged for political purposes. Chairman of the U.K. Statistics Authority, Sir Michael Scholar, explains what they do.
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Comments [1]
"Only 1 in 6 British thought that government statistics were not bogus"
Good, I'll admit, but you just can't touch ""The Argument Clinic".
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