How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next

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The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril

by William Davies



https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy


Its a long read but a very worthwhile one at that.