Statistician blasts government’s Covid-19 press conferences as ‘completely embarrassing’
(left to right) Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Director of Health Improvement at Public Health England, Professor John Newton, during a media briefing in Downing Street
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A STATISTICS expert has criticised the government’s daily press conference as a “number theatre,” starving the public of genuine information on coronavirus in Britain.
Today Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter slammed the press briefings as “completely embarrassing.”
He said that statistics should instead be presented by people who know the strength and limitations of the data and that could “treat the audience with respect.”
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