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Bad Data - How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (Hardcover)
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Bad Data - How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R515
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'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim
Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses)
of data ... a penetrating analysis of why statistical literacy
matters to our politics and our daily lives' Professor Jonathan
Portes Our politicians make vital decisions and declarations every
day that rely on official data. But should all statistics be
trusted? In BAD DATA, House of Commons Library statistician
Georgina Sturge draws back the curtain on how governments of the
past and present have been led astray by figures littered with
inconsistency, guesswork and uncertainty. Discover how a 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.
With stories that range from the troubling to the empowering to the
downright absurd, BAD DATA reveals secrets from the usually
closed-off world of policy-making. It also suggests how - once we
understand the human story behind the numbers - we can make more
informed choices about who to trust, and when.
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