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- Type 1
Last week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation published a report on funding for health and social care. One figure from the report was repeated across the headlines. For the NHS to stay afloat, it would require “£2,000 in tax from every household”. Shocking stuff!
The trouble with figures like this is that while there may be a sense in which this is mathematically true, that kind of framing is dangerously close to being false.
If you’re sitting at a bar with a group of friends and Bill Gates walks in, the average wealth of everyone in the room makes you all millionaires. But if you try to buy the most expensive bottle of champagne in the place, your debit card will still be declined.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/28/language-politics-democracy-nhs-media
The trouble with figures like this is that while there may be a sense in which this is mathematically true, that kind of framing is dangerously close to being false.
If you’re sitting at a bar with a group of friends and Bill Gates walks in, the average wealth of everyone in the room makes you all millionaires. But if you try to buy the most expensive bottle of champagne in the place, your debit card will still be declined.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/28/language-politics-democracy-nhs-media
