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"How sad. All governments find it tempting to tweak the numbers they are judged by. But in doing this they deprive themselves of the best guide to future policymaking. And they also create a self-defeating spiral of distrust in which even the numbers they have not tweaked are disbelieved."
From The Economist print edition
March 1st 2007, p. 18
The importance of statistics
Lies, damned lies
Also available online here with a subscription.
BTW, at Swivel we're anti-government-number-tweaking.
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