Beware the statistics that pop up in more than one story | Paul Chadwick

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One reader’s query underlines the problem with quoting insufficiently examined figures, says the the Guardian readers’ editor, Paul Chadwick

 

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So... Beware statistics that are corroborated? Interesting... You could have said that we should be skeptical of the validity of MSM statistics, but instead you chose a completely irrelevant characteristic... I wonder why.

quite so. but the main challenge here should be less to MSM than to HJS_Org whose whole purpose as a thinktank is to present policy recommendations on the basis of facts

Let's ask Donald.

You mean the rather fantastic “97% of climate scientists” one here too, right?

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