Tag: Royal Statistical Society

• Why do people think that hitting the poor is the best way to cut the deficit?

  July 18, 2013

  United Kingdom, Welfare

  Last week, Ipsos Mori and King’s College London released the results of a survey showing that Britons are (almost) wrong about everything, and especially welfare. They think that for every 100£ spent on welfare, 24 are spent on fraudulent claims, whereas the actual figure looks more like 70p. They think that a 26’000£ cap on Read.