Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers - Couverture souple

Sturge, Georgina

 
9780349128634: Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0349128634 ISBN 13 : 9780349128634
Editeur : The Bridge Street Press, 2023

Synopsis

A thrilling behind-the-scenes exploration of how governments past and present have been led astray by bad data - and why it is so hard to measure things and to do it well

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À propos de l'auteur

Georgina Sturge is a Statistician at the House of Commons Library. She is one of a team of senior statisticians who advise the 650 Members of Parliament - from all parties - on the use of statistics and who carry out impartial research for them. Whenever there is a debate in Parliament, they compile general background information for Members and answer their direct questions.

Georgina sees first-hand how data is used in the policy process. She sees the constant demand for it, how politicians are not able to take 'no data' for an answer, how statistics get warped and how nuance and uncertainty are overlooked. She sees how important decisions being made based on data that is really not robust enough for that purpose.

Her background is in quantitative public policy analysis. She trained in this at the United Nations University and Maastricht University Graduate School of Governance. Prior to working at Parliament, she worked as a primary researcher in the fields of global development, international migration, social security, poverty and inequality. She has helped design and carry out primary data collection through large-scale population surveys in several countries.

She is a member of the Office for National Statistics' expert advisory group on population and migration statistics and an advisor to the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A thrilling behind-the-scenes exploration of how governments past and present have been led astray by bad data - and why it is so hard to measure things and to do it well

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Éditeur
The Bridge Street Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0349128634
ISBN 13 
9780349128634
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  0349128618 ISBN 13 :  9780349128610
Editeur : The Bridge Street Press, 2022
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