that old quotation from Benjamin Disraeli and amuse myself by reflecting on what must go on inside this not insubstantial edifice and what whoppers must emerge as a result of its staff's creativity. But in today's Himalayan newspaper there was a hint of the sound value that the these good offices deliver. At a conference held in Kathmandu on alternative toilet technology the Bureau contributed the statistic that fourteen million of Nepal's twenty five million population defecate in the open. I wonder how they arrived at that little nugget?
Sunday 7 September 2008
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Driving past Nepal's Central Bureau of Statistics in Kathmandu I often think of 
that old quotation from Benjamin Disraeli and amuse myself by reflecting on what must go on inside this not insubstantial edifice and what whoppers must emerge as a result of its staff's creativity. But in today's Himalayan newspaper there was a hint of the sound value that the these good offices deliver. At a conference held in Kathmandu on alternative toilet technology the Bureau contributed the statistic that fourteen million of Nepal's twenty five million population defecate in the open. I wonder how they arrived at that little nugget?
that old quotation from Benjamin Disraeli and amuse myself by reflecting on what must go on inside this not insubstantial edifice and what whoppers must emerge as a result of its staff's creativity. But in today's Himalayan newspaper there was a hint of the sound value that the these good offices deliver. At a conference held in Kathmandu on alternative toilet technology the Bureau contributed the statistic that fourteen million of Nepal's twenty five million population defecate in the open. I wonder how they arrived at that little nugget?
