It doesn’t add up
Posted at 8:15 pm on 3 Dec 08 by Nigel Stanley
Stumbling and Mumbling has an entertaining filleting of Guido’s most recent attack on the Chancellor.
Just occasionally the TUC has got some stats wrong, but hardly any one ever notices. Indeed I did a quick bit of mental arithmetic the other day and underestimated some job loss figures. This one was spotted by a journalist, but that’s rare.
Whether this is because we are right most of the time (at least when we do sums) and people take our word for it – or whether they simply lack the numeracy is an open question.
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