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Why are data so important in determining how we live?
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Dec 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Why are good data so important to policymakers – whether they know it or not – and what happens when good data is missing? Presenter Tim Harford speaks to Georgina Sturge, a statistician at the House of Commons library in London and the author of Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers.
Released:
Dec 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
How useful is GDP?: Tim Harford and team look at GDP, school standards and the results of 'The Other Census'. by More or Less: Behind the Stats