November 23, 2013

Official statistics

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Government statistics of an unusual kind, from CNTV, via Blood & Treasure

They’re local officials from remote Qingshuihe County in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region who don’t have time to even blink as they each count about 10,000 sheep a day. They’re here to make sure there’s never gridlock on the sheep highway through the river valley and the pastures aren’t grazed bald.

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »