“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911) Following on from the article in the last issue which dealt with a number of the ways in which the media (in particular the print media) can mislead us, this time we are going to try and provide you, dear reader, with some background on data, statistics and numbers in general so that you can spot when the media is trying to pull the wool [...]
