Share this postClimate & Covid: Challenging Unenlightenment 'Science'Office For Nobbled Statistics Finds 'Surprise Growth' Lurking Behind The Back Of The Sofa - On The Same Day BBC Finally Reports On Reeves' CV FraudCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreOffice For Nobbled Statistics Finds 'Surprise Growth' Lurking Behind The Back Of The Sofa - On The Same Day BBC Finally Reports On Reeves' CV FraudJaime JessopFeb 13, 202518Share this postClimate & Covid: Challenging Unenlightenment 'Science'Office For Nobbled Statistics Finds 'Surprise Growth' Lurking Behind The Back Of The Sofa - On The Same Day BBC Finally Reports On Reeves' CV FraudCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMore51ShareCall me cynical.
0.1% blimey. It looks like a case of using the roundup rather than the round function in the ONS excel spreadsheet. It usually comes into its own on a bad news day.
By coincidence via Jeff Childers, it has just emerged that the US government fiddled the statistics to overstate the health of the Biden economy, unexpectedly exposed in a Politico article: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464.