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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Wrong numbers: How bad data leads us astray
Description: Statistics dictate policy – but what if our data sets are wrong? How are numbers manipulated for political gain? These are questions that House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge answers in her new book Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers. She tells Alex Andreou about how data is used to make policy, how it is being manipulated, and how to tell good data from bad.
“Numbers can’t speak for themselves.”
“Governments are presenting data as if it is free of ideology.”
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