LunchBreakInTheBookies

lunchinthebookies.bsky.social

15 June 2025 07:14

I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.

LunchBreakInTheBookies

lunchinthebookies.bsky.social

15 June 2025 07:13

Conclusion ... these problems have been a long time coming. Solving them is difficult and takes both money and time, both in terms of the legislative cover that is often needed (e.g. to get access to things like PAYE or banking data for statistical purposes), and in the subsequent implementation.

Chris Giles

chrisgiles.ft.com

21 March 2025 20:29

IFS paper here: ifs.org.uk/publications... Written up here on.ft.com/4iptMKH 2/

Chris Giles

chrisgiles.ft.com

21 March 2025 20:29

This is very rare for me (therefore exciting), but I think the @theifs.bsky.social (IFS) is making an unreasonable fuss about ONS "errors" today, which are not errors, but difficult methodological choices At the end of the 🧵there is a simple solution I will propose to resolve the argument 1/

Tom Loosemore

tomski.com

21 March 2025 20:28

A recipe for making the monoculture & groupthink worse. Civil service recruitment needs to be redesigned from first principles.