Beware of politicians tweeting statistics

Ben Roskrow
July 1, 2012
There was lots of fun this month with the spat – as all political arguments are dubbed – between housing minster Grant Shapps and his shadow Jack Dromey. Dromey accused Shapps of bolstering his media profile by duplicating previous announcements and issuing misleading statistics. He wrote to the chair of the UK Statistics Authority Andrew Dilnot to complain and rather …

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