Making Sense of Statistics - a review and guide by the BBC Trust
The past decade has seen a huge increase in the public availability of facts and figures - an increase resulting from the near universal availability of the Internet and the growing acceptance by public authorities of the need for transparency. This has been accompanied by a growing market for data journalism and an ever-greater reliance in public discourse on figures and trends, some of which can be taken at face value, but many of which require analysis and understanding if their significance is to be understood. On top of that, facts and figures are often used – and abused – to create stories or to justify assertions that they simply cannot support.
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