Politicians Manipulating Statistics

Politicians Manipulating Statistics

How They Do It and How to Oppose Them

Billig, Michael; Marinho, Cristina

Cambridge University Press

01/2025

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9781009488136

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Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The rise of statistics; 3. Different ways of manipulating; 4. Donald trump: master manipulator; 5. Manipulating statistics and statisticians; 6. Establishing a statistical authority in Britain; 7. Establishing a statistical authority in France; 8. Gerald Darmanin: populism against statistics; 9. Boris Johnson: untruthful words and numbers; 10. How a manipulated covid target was exposed; 11. Final comments; Notes; Index.