Ep 256: Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Is the State Producing Statistics?
In recent years, these have come up inte ino forfront. The more the government has a vested interest in not showing us statistics that throw a darklight on right? So then what do you do? One is to say that let's forget about government statistics and lets just rely on alternative metrics. Or let’s look at surveys which are designed for a certain purpose, but which are also throwing up andsilide data. And so this is one way of dealing with this issue. But the problem is, tis the one step thing. If more and more people start doing this, later on, in the next round, the government may say that oke, shorten
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