Unsourced and incomplete: how referendum campaign leaflets misused statistics
Nakatudde, Nambassa
(2017)
Unsourced and incomplete: how referendum campaign leaflets misused statistics.
[Online resource]
We know some of the statistics deployed in the EU referendum campaign were at best dubious. But how did both sides deploy stats to make their points? Nambassa Nakatudde takes a look at the hundreds of campaign leaflets donated to the LSE Library archive, and finds a number of alarming traits: an almost total failure to source statistical claims, a tendency to draw invalid comparisons and selective infographics that left out key information.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Departments | Statistics |
| Date Deposited | 07 Apr 2017 08:32 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72888 |