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.
Comment on ONS may stop publishing mortality data on homeless people
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 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?’
whelks_chance@feddit.uk 5 months ago
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 months ago
That ship has sailed, the stock market is just a measure of rich people’s gut feelings and we’ve done wars over it.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I might first ask if it was accurate. Not efficient.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Is that sociopath speak for “nobody cares about these deaths so why are we wasting money tracking them”?