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Bad Data - How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (Paperback)
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Bad Data - How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 840
You Save R86 (18%)
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Not all statistics are created equal. Take a look behind the scenes
and you'll discover that even most official data isn't the solid
bedrock we think it is. It's patchy, inconsistent, full of
guesswork and uncertainty - and it's playing an ever-bigger role in
policy decisions. BAD DATA takes the reader on that
behind-the-scenes journey, guided by House of Commons Library
statistician Georgina Sturge. Revealing the secrets of a world that
is usually closed off, it will show how governments of the past and
present have been led astray by bad data and explain why it is so
hard to count and measure things, and how we could better handle
these problems. Discover how one Hungarian businessman's bright
idea caused half a million people to go missing from UK migration
statistics. Find out why it's possible for two politicians to
disagree over whether poverty has gone up or down, using the same
official numbers, and for both to be right at the same time. And
hear about how policies like ID cards, super-casinos and stopping
ex-convicts from reoffending failed to live up to their promise
because they were based on shaky data.
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