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Do statistics show quality improvement programs damage national gdp?

Started by , Mar 16 2006 08:10 PM
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It is often popular to remark derogatively of statistics their credibility follows after lies and damned lies. I would contend, though, that far from their residing being in the basement of reliability, recent years events prove there is a species even worse: corporate accounts. Of course, in a supposedly post-Enron world those in the USA, for example, are supposed to think Sarbanes-Oxley will elevate accounts relegating 'statistics' to their traditional position in the Hades of trustworthiness.

"With statistics you can prove anything", goes another oft-quoted pejorative remark. Perhaps.

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