Statistics chief rebukes Sturgeon claim Covid-19 five times lower in Scotland than England

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First minister’s claim not based on verifiable data and should not have been made, says Office of Statistics Regulation

Nicola Sturgeon has been censured by the UK’s chief statistician after using incomplete and unpublished data to claim the coronavirus was five times less prevalent in Scotland than in England.

 

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NicolaSturgeon doing a BorisJohnson?

What? A porky from Sturgeon! A revelation for sure

She and her party are lying separatist. They use statistics to blag their way through all sorts, especially economics. But anything to slag off a Tory government is fair game to them. Just lie to prove we are better. Every unemployment figure, GDP, waiting times are all compared

'x times lower' never seems to be useful.

BallouxFrancois Can someone please tell me what the actual number is then if “5 times lower” is wrong? I know it’s lower... is it more or less than 5?

BallouxFrancois The world is gradually waking up and seeing that we have a dictatorship in Scotland. Press gagged, rivals gagged, SNP ministers gagged, SNP members gagged and opponents gagged. Who'dve thought?

Uh, doesn’t England, especially in the South, have a higher population density than Scotland? That might have everything to do with it.

the UK has been funny about releasing data, especially number recovered etc., to hide the horrendous outcome death rate. beside belgium, the UK, per capita, has the world's worse case outcome death rate.

0 fatalities in 12 days versus England's 700+ 🤷

She lies as much as Johnson.

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