Alex Au puts microscope to MOM and report by Statistics Department

[Confuseous]

Suspicion was aroused the moment I tried to scroll to the end of the report. A half-decent report that claims to interpret statistical data should have statistical tables in its appendix, the same way a company’s annual report should include a thick second section detailing its financial statements and notes after having presented its fancy bar charts in its front section (the rule of thumb being that every claim made in the fore section should be supported by an exhaustive table in the rear half). I scrolled. There was no appendix other than a half-page listing the many help schemes the government has laid out (“Workfare bonus”, “Utility rebates”, “Baby bonus” etc).


- http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/jimmying-gini-for-political-sell/