Troubles on Statistical Lies

Gerhard Scheuerer ()
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Gerhard Scheuerer: Gerhard Scheuerer University of Erfurt

Chapter 2 in Great Nations at Peril, 2015, pp 5-19 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This essay is based on the thesis that statistical data are a general problem of political decision making. It will be shown that the acquaintance with statistical data has to bear in mind the modelling footing of compiling statistical data. Producers of statistical data and researchers have the obligation to inform in round terms the users and the public explicitly on statistical modelling and not only exclusively about the results.

Keywords: Statistic; Inadequate statistical method; Misuse of statistical data; Happiness; Government policy; C10; E60; J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10055-5_2

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