The Big Read: Damned by the maths
21 April 2016 - 02:25
Pali Lehohla is not a man given to exaggeration. The nation's statistician-general lives in a sub-terranean world where smart people churn out large volumes of data, emerging from time to time with a report on every conceivable subject, from housing to unemployment to education, before disappearing again into the vast underworld of officially collected numbers.
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