MPs GIVEN STAGGERINGLY SIMPLISTIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS
According to exam results, Britons get cleverer with each passing year. That may not be true, however, of our politicians. For, at our expense, a guide has just been produced for them called Statistical Literacy: How To Understand And Calculate Percentages.
It poses staggeringly advanced questions like: “What is [...]
You may have seen news reports today about official population figures for 2008, which show that the country appears to be headed for a population of 70 million by 2029. Much as we admire the ONS for taking the government to task for spinning statistics, you have to wonder about how accurate these figures are, [...]
Remember the Gordon Brown who became Prime Minister in 2007? So keen was he to distance himself from Tony Blair’s premiership that he made the Office for National Statistics independent, so that there would be “no more spin” and public faith in government statistics would be restored.
Sir Michael Scholar was made chairman of the UK [...]
In the House of Commons on Thursday, Leader of the House Harriet Harman accused Mark Harper, Conservative MP for the Forest of Dean, of being “a gender pay discrimination denier.” Harsh words, but she was angry with Harper for daring to suggest that men who work part-time are paid less than their female equivalents.
Harper’s figures [...]
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