Why are data so important in determining how we live?
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Why are good data so important to policymakers \\u2013 whether they know it or not \\u2013 and what happens when good data is missing? Presenter Tim Harford speaks to Georgina Sturge, a statistician at the House of Commons library in London and the author of Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers.
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