GreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 6 months agoONS may stop publishing mortality data on homeless peoplewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down12
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkONS may stop publishing mortality data on homeless peoplewww.theguardian.comGreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·6 months ago proposed changes to official figures that the ONS says will provide “an improved and more efficient health and social care statistical landscape”. Ah yes, because the first thing I always think when reading about any deaths among the homeless is ‘is this statistical landscape efficient?’
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·6 months agoIs that sociopath speak for “nobody cares about these deaths so why are we wasting money tracking them”?
minus-squarewhelks_chance@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoYou should. If government level decisions are being made based on this data, we should know that it’s sound. Otherwise people resort to using gut feel to solve problems.
minus-squareShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoThat ship has sailed, the stock market is just a measure of rich people’s gut feelings and we’ve done wars over it.
minus-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI might first ask if it was accurate. Not efficient.
Ah yes, because the first thing I always think when reading about any deaths among the homeless is ‘is this statistical landscape efficient?’
Is that sociopath speak for “nobody cares about these deaths so why are we wasting money tracking them”?
You should. If government level decisions are being made based on this data, we should know that it’s sound. Otherwise people resort to using gut feel to solve problems.
That ship has sailed, the stock market is just a measure of rich people’s gut feelings and we’ve done wars over it.
I might first ask if it was accurate. Not efficient.