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NZ Statistics..............a Fairy Tale?????

PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:22 pm
I learned yesterday from a reliable source that income statistics in NZ are not what they appear to be. He has been a statistician that worked with income data in a government department. He collected, analysed and passed on the analysis to senior official’s. There was always a mismatch of what he worked out and what was officially published. My source has a math major in statistics. So he is competent to comment on it.
BTW, he had to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
The official ones were always quite a bit higher than the stats he worked out!!

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