Pokies trust hijacks student coursework
Good work by journalist Steve Deane in today’s New Zealand Herald:
A study published by the Lion Foundation which extols the benefits of funding community projects with gambling money is course work produced by a group of Massey commerce students.
… I wonder if the students knew that their coursework, which for various reasons explained in the story can’t be used to draw such conclusions, knew their work was going to be hijacked? Either the Lion Foundation doesn’t know much about statistical rigour, or is grasping at straws and hoping no-one will ask questions.
Atakohu Middleton is an Auckland journalist with a keen interest in the way the media uses/abuses data. She happens to be married to a statistician. See all posts by Atakohu Middleton »