GreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 8 months agoONS may stop publishing mortality data on homeless peoplewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12
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minus-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·8 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-up10arrow-down1·8 months agoIs that sociopath speak for “nobody cares about these deaths so why are we wasting money tracking them”?
minus-squarewhelks_chance@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 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-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 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.
I might first ask if it was accurate. Not efficient.