No, Minister.

[fu_manchu12]

Is it me or is there something fishy about the minister's statistics in this letter to the Guardian?

Your front-page article reported false claims that city academies are "deserting the poor" and "cherry-picking more able children from middle-class families".

In fact, last September the 14 academies in question recruited 1,100 pupils who were

Comments

[kht]

Yes, you're right. Statistics can be bent to say anything that anyone wants them to, and so should be taken with a shovelful of salt.

[knirirr]

Indeed. Here's a good example of stats naughtiness to prove one's point.

[neonchameleon]

Of course, the city academies could also be a good example of regression to the mean...