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Why are data so important in determining how we live?

More or Less: behind the statistics

Saturday, 10 December 2022 - 9 minutes

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.

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