Thread: Team Australia - this is who we are

I am an old bugger so I am not welcome in the team

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Team Australia: the reality of the figures - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


I thought this was an interesting little compilation of facts about the real Australia today.
The bits about poor literacy and the prevalence of mental and developmental health problems were particularly concerning, I thought.

Well, perhaps we should not take everything on face value, Bob


“How to Lie with Statistics” | Psychology Today

I wonder what 24% of the population are the ones who would prefer a non-democratic government?

Originally Posted by JamesB71

I wonder what 24% of the population are the ones who would prefer a non-democratic government?

I just wonder how many of them know what it is living under that conditions.

Originally Posted by bob10

Well, perhaps we should not take everything on face value, Bob

It would be equally unwise to dismiss all statistical information as misleading. Rejecting all statistics is no more sensible than just accepting all statistics at face value. (I do realise that is not what you are doing.)

Are there any particular ones in that article that you suspect may have been massaged or presented so that they give a misleading impression?

Originally Posted by Chucaro

I just wonder how many of them know what it is living under that conditions.

Probably none of them have thought about Winston Churchill's comment that, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

This is shocking!!
Almost half of Aboriginal men and more than a third of women die before they turn 45.

Half of all Tasmanians aged 15 to 74 are functionally illiterate.

About 620,000 Australians aged 15 to 74 have literacy skills at below level one on a five point literacy scale.

Originally Posted by vnx205

It would be equally unwise to dismiss all statistical information as misleading. Rejecting all statistics is no more sensible than just accepting all statistics at face value. (I do realise that is not what you are doing.)

Are there any particular ones in that article that you suspect may have been massaged or presented so that they give a misleading impression?

I would like a closer look at any organisation that presents statistics in order to be granted Government money, but I'm sure that would be done. After all, Governments are basically honest, aren't they? Bob