I saw
this short article in
Wired and thought it was pretty interesting.
Quote:
Did you know that 62 percent of all cited statistics are bogus? OK, we made that up. But after a 2007 poll found that barely a third of all British citizens trust published stats, Parliament formed a math-police squad to investigate. The top cop in the UK Statistics Authority is Richard Alldritt, an expert in how governments fudge the numbers.
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