A recent email suggested Radstats subscribers have to choose between
pursuing an 'agenda' and demystifying official statistics. Although ends and
means can be at odds, or even mutually exclusive, there is no evidence that
this is so in our case.
To set up aims and methods in opposition, as if one should take precedence
over the other, is neither logical nor helpful. An effective organisation
needs to be clear both on where it wants to go and also on how to proceed in
that direction.
Radstats aims (broadly to help bring about a more aware, democratic, equal
and fair society, in which human needs are prioritised) are pursued through
probing and critiquing official statistics and exposing the flawed
statistics so often peddled by the media. This link between aims and methods
is clear in Radstats history and in the work which Radstats subscribers do
every day.
best wishes
Jay Ginn
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