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Inequality: are we measuring the right things?
Graham Watson
24th March 2017
Here is a really thought-provoking blog post from Jonathan Athow at the Office for National Statistics that looks at how we measure inequality and whether we look at the right things or not. There are lots of nice observations about how cognitive biases might have led us to reach unwarranted conclusions about inequality but this little prompt gets us to look beyond the data.
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