This morning the BBC Breakfast Program said that later today the National Audit Office would raise questions about the accuracy of NHS waiting time lists while the News web pages reported similar questions about police crime statistics
I am not surprised - for many years I was a public representative on committees relating mainly to mental health in Hertfordshire and I never believed a lot of the statistics - but I knew enough to know why the local figures were likely to be only approximate and I also knew that the officials who presented the statistics also knew of the limitations - but it was necessary to present them with a straight face. [Some examples below the fold.]
