{"id":5719,"date":"2010-01-04T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T08:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2010-01-04T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T08:13:36","slug":"there-are-lies-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/04\/there-are-lies-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"There are lies, and statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchstoneblog.org.uk\/2010\/01\/public-sector-pay-some-unstraight-statistics-from-the-sunday-times\/\">Public sector pay: some unstraight statistics from the Sunday Times | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Stanley of the TUC lays into some pretty dodgy stats from the Sunday Times on public sector pay.<\/p>\n<p>He's right to do so: the impression given is straightforwardly wrong and the ethics involved dubious.<\/p>\n<p>And for the clarification of doubt: yes I do advise the TUC but I was not involved in Nigel's analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public sector pay: some unstraight statistics from the Sunday Times | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Nigel Stanley of the TUC<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/04\/there-are-lies-and-statistics\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}