Around 80% of statistics are rubbish, my politics tutor liked to joke. Look at the recent discussion over GDP figures, and perhaps he was right to be so flippant. Growth figures are more art than social science, and are endlessly revised after they first emerge – usually upwards (except in the US, where they have tended subsequently to
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Sep 08, 2023
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