One problem with reports from large bureaucracies

Here is an NYT headline and a WSJ headline on the same Pentagon report last Tuesday. Reports produced in large bureaucracies have to interpret the “facts” so as to please competing interest groups within the bureaucracy, as I can testify from my World Bank experience. The result is usually a report with a very unclear message. If I was not feeling so lazy on a Sunday morning, I could cite a lot of aid reports with the same problem as the Pentagon report.

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Another problem of fake numbers on an American topic (and NYT) concern even more world hunger

In the wake of aid Watch posts on composed world issues of hunger, the NYT today revealed another scandal composed of numbers problem in another region:

{Methodology} is denigrated by professional mathematicians....{which} {creative numbers of} the laughingstock of the community of numbers.

It is bad than enough analysis mathematician, Professor UC Irvine, HAL s. Stern called the statistical community to boycott participation…

{Another expert said} "is not a sincere effort to use mathematics to find the answer to tout.Il is clearly an effort to use mathematics as a cover for everything that you want to....""This is just nonsense math."

{Outside evaluators} cannot {fully verify numbers} …because lack of transparency…Three designers {number} said that {agency declaration} did not check numbers, as they turned.

This anger is directed towards a certain number who Americans DO with passion.

College football rankings.

See her full NYT article in the sports section. to my knowledge the NYT did not run a story about also dubious methodology number NYT reports on areas we readers are apparently much less concerned: worldwide the maternal mortality, world hunger and world poverty.

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