L O ST OP P ORTU N ITIES Can they be recovered Pali Lehohla Independent Accountability Panel 1 So if you give her any crap be ready to receive a ton of Shit 2 Gender statistics 3 ID: 815119
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Truth in the numbers the role of data in a world of fact fiction and everything in betweenLOST OPPORTUNITIES
Can they be recovered?
Pali LehohlaIndependent Accountability Panel
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Slide2..So if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of Shit
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Gender statistics
Slide33Why the topicAre statisticians worried by the truth or lack of it in the numbersIs truth enough? Is it an objective state of being
Is it a sufficient conditionTruth as a necessary but not sufficient conditionWhat more is necessary
Truth as a project of conversationConditions for conversation as transparencyIndependence as conversation and not distanceIndependence as interdependence
Slide44Ian Hacking opines that “The quiet statisticians have changed our world, not by discovering new facts or technical developments but by changing the ways we reason, experiment, and form
our opinions.”
This reasoning is consistent with Ecclesiastes 1:14-11 asserting that there is nothing new under the sun. In this assertion, Ecclesiastes argues that unless there is
God at the centre of our thinking generations come and generations go and will live a life that is worthless.
The god in us as statisticians are the UN Fundamental principles for official statistics
Slide55Independent Accountability Panel position on Accountability is about how those in situations of hopelessness survive, then thrive and transform for the better Its point of departure is on rights
A clear architecture of intention
A transparent mechanism for transforming intentions to commitmentsA credible and verifiable fidelity of systems of facts, Authority of voice
Remedy as a lever for commitmentNational Statistics offices are crucial to deliver credible facts for the mandate of the IAP to be implementable
Currently the IAP is preparing its 3
rd
Report on Accountability of the Private Sector