It turns out to be an excellent example of the misleading use of statistics.
The report's authors countered that their use of statistics is sound and their language measured.
"Sir Michael's letter is incredibly serious and brings into question the 'highly selective' use of statistics by ministers, " she said.
Modern fingerprinting goes back to Francis Galton, a 19th-century British scientist who, ironically, helped to pioneer the use of statistics.
The MPs said the use of statistics system had improved, but more control needed to be given to the UK Statistics Authority to boost public confidence.
Mr Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history.
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The statistics watchdog has not previously commented directly on the use of official statistics by the media, limiting its scrutiny to the behaviour of the government and national politicians.
The Supreme Court banned the use of letting statistics stand in for actual responses in the census.
Some use a hybrid of statistics and data analysis offerings.
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The New York Times's Nate Silver criticizes Chief Justice John Roberts for his use of voter-registration statistics during last week's oral arguments in Shelby County v.
The UK Border Agency has been "highly selective" in its use of drugs seizure figures, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority has said.
He showed them the cost statistics and use patterns of the most expensive one per cent.
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Even the federal American Time Use Survey, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, doesn't directly measure how much time all adults in a household are spending caring for their children.
If you believe results from the American Time Use Survey, done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other studies, plenty of Americans have faulty impressions of how they spend time in our "too-rushed-to-breathe" world.
In 1994 Congress instructed the Justice Department to compile statistics and produce an annual report on the use of excessive force.
But a quick review of transport statistics shows that private planes do not use the airports at which the greatest delays are suffered.
Trainees at the academy are issued with laptop computers, which they use to download footage of their training sessions and analyze bowling and batting statistics and techniques.
However, after a campaign by health authorities in the UK, encouraging data from the Office of National Statistics, released on Thursday, suggests that use is decreasing, particularly among children.
Employment for physician assistants is projected to grow much faster than average because health care institutions increasingly use these practitioners to contain costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Not true, according to Kempton, whose research team studied road-use statistics and found that even during the worst traffic periods nearly 90% of cars are idle.
But the last few years has seen its increasing use and it has now supplanted a billion, says James Abdey, a fellow of statistics at London School of Economics.
In the academic world of statistics, there has been a similar debate raging over how we should use information.
Multiple aid sources have confirmed that the United Nations will use the emotive word on Wednesday, after analysing the latest statistics and reports from the Horn of Africa.
At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.
In the spirit of giving clients what they want, these statistics should at least provoke some serious thinking about how you use social media.
Design, in close liaison with the Divisions in the Sector and Field Offices as may be necessary, regular programme activities and extra budgetary projects for building human and institutional capacities on policy formulation and monitoring through the use of science and technology indicators and programmes to foster inter-regional cooperation in close cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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