Gerald & Friends cannot even get the median income data correct!

[Confuseous]

Did the committee actually deliberately attempt to mislead the public? At the time that I wrote my Press release I thought not – but now I’m not so sure. Maybe when feedback came back to them that linking Ministerial pay with the top 0.02% of earners in the country would send the wrong message they sought to downplay it. The figure 1,400th sounds so much better than 501st or even 700th. The only other explanation for the fundamental mistake is that they don’t understand the Math. We need to be seriously concerned about this. If a civil servant heading an enquiry produced this type of error anywhere else then heads would roll. In may opinion it goes to the heart of credibility of the whole report.

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