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Why are data so important in determining how we live?
How good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics
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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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?