On BBC Breakfast News just now they were talking about a new report on mental health provision. The presenter, Suzannah Reid, went through a number of “damning” statistics in an incredulous manner. Included in the list was this gem: “46% of health trusts are below average performance.”
Hmmm….
So, 4% more health trusts are at or above average performance than would be expected then, if the distribution was normal.. sounds like a positive rather than a negative to me. (Though there would have to be a few *very* low scores to skew the average.)
Why can’t journalists understand the very simplest statistics?
My favourite was always the quote from a Minster for Education about how terrible it was that half of all schools had below-average performance…
Ah, but that was probably just spin.
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Ура!, тот кто писал ништяк написал!
Прочитал, конечно, далеко от моей темы.
