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Tinkering with Statistics

Monday, August 25, 2025

The danger of tampering with economic growth data. It can end up like Greece and Argentina.

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STATISTICS are like politicians: they can be tailored to serve the interests of their makers. Daniel Levitin was not aiming to mock, or predict what the Indonesian government would do, when he wrote that line in his 2017 book Weaponized Lies.

The Stanford University cognitive psychologist was simply warning of the dangers of misinformation and disinformation through data manipulation in an age when truth is increasingly blurred. His book ar

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