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Using Honest Data To Fight Poverty By Kabiru Danladi Lawanti, Ph.D.
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Using Honest Data To Fight Poverty By Kabiru Danladi Lawanti, Ph.D.
Not long ago, I stumbled on a report by The Cable claiming that 86.2% households in Gombe State are “extremely poor.” The figure was presented with the neat precision of mathematics, the kind of number that instantly commands authority. After all, who argues with percentages? Yet, the moment I read it, I was reminded of Darrell Huff’s timeless book, How to Lie with Statistics. Published in the 1950s, Huff’s work showed how figures, once stripped…
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