{"id":5563,"date":"2005-03-03T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2005-03-03T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T08:47:12","slug":"meaningless-statistic-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/03\/03\/meaningless-statistic-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless Statistic of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Which? via the BBC comes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/4311693.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">this gem of a meaningless statistic<\/a> &#8211; &quot;one in four touched by identity fraud&quot;. Apparently, one in four Britons (based on a survey of just 975 people out of a population in excess of 55 million &#8211; not a statistically significant sample, I&#8217;d suggest) has either suffered identity fraud or &quot;knows someone who has&quot;. This is fear-mongering at its worst. You could say just about anything about any subject if you include people who know someone who has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Which? via the BBC comes this gem of a meaningless statistic &#8211; &quot;one in four touched by identity fraud&quot;. Apparently, one in four Britons (based on a survey of just 975 people out of a population in excess of 55 million &#8211; not a statistically significant sample, I&#8217;d suggest) has either suffered identity fraud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}