by Georgina Sturge · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · tapa dura · ISBN 9780349128610
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«Bad Data» is Georgina Sturge's essay on the use of official data, published by Little, Brown Book Group in hardcover (336 pages, in English).
Georgina Sturge, a statistician at the House of Commons Library, shows how official figures can be unreliable and lead governments into error. It includes cases such as the disappearance of half a million people from UK migration statistics or the opposing analyses of the same data on poverty.
Published on November 3, 2022; subtitle: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers.
For those interested in politics, statistics and current affairs: an accessible approach to reading the numbers that underpin public decisions.
