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Comparing source documents to claims by governments, UN agencies, media, fact checkers and others on global progress, large-scale social science and UN pledges.

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    1. Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley 27 Dec 2018
      Replying to @sanjaygreddy @AndrewM_Fischer and

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      I have proposed that the Royal Statistical Society retract the honour. The award was for their own claim of a 'poverty' fall to 2018 - exaggerating even the World Bank claim. Clearly, income or spending alone cannot measure adequacy or economic gains. https://twitter.com/mattberkley/status/1078309220993376261 …

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    2. Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley 28 Dec 2018
      Replying to @mattberkley @sanjaygreddy and

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      Email to the Royal Statistical Society:https://twitter.com/mattberkley/status/1078678214988292096 …

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      The Royal Statistical Society has not defended its global poverty claim. This challenge began on 19 December. pic.twitter.com/ZDjwTcjE0c
      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley Jan 5
      Replying to @mattberkley @sanjaygreddy and

      The Royal Statistical Society has responded to allegations that it made a claim on global poverty without evidence, by doing so again. At best gross professional negligence, undermining democracy, and abuse of charitable status? #RoyalStatScandalpic.twitter.com/GMVhi0AlUI

      2 replies 14 retweets 17 likes
    4. David Satterthwaite‏ @Dsatterthwaite Jan 5
      Replying to @mattberkley @sanjaygreddy and

      The most insightful and robust poverty related figure? Aaaahhhh Try this: community leaders in 6 Asian nations elaborate on how they would define and measure poverty https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956247810379823 … Or this on nonsense poverty lines in Egypt by Sarah Sabry https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956247810379823 …

      1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
    5. Andrew M. Fischer‏ @AndrewM_Fischer Jan 5
      Replying to @Dsatterthwaite @mattberkley and

      I argue in my new book that all poverty measures are by their very nature arbitrary. For me, what is more important is how the practices of measurement and identification either disempower or empower political representation and contestation by the poor themselves.

      1 reply 3 retweets 5 likes
    6. Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley Feb 3
      Replying to @AndrewM_Fischer @Dsatterthwaite and

      My reply to Steven Pinker on global poverty, February 2018. The Wall Street Journal did not publish this, or a shorter version.pic.twitter.com/B00koBbjj4

      3 replies 20 retweets 39 likes
    7. Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley Feb 4
      Replying to @mattberkley @AndrewM_Fischer and

      It is a triumph of Western culture to produce people who think their own economic situation depends on their "needs", assets, prices they face and so on, while other people's prosperity (and their own if they are making a point) can be judged by looking only at income.

      4 replies 3 retweets 9 likes
    8. Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley Feb 4
      Replying to @mattberkley @AndrewM_Fischer and

      The central problem is not the World Bank "poverty" claims. It is the widespread use of "income" (often in fact spending) estimates to make unsupported claims about economic gains and losses to people. Claims on "income inequality" or "real income" can have similar problems.

      4 replies 2 retweets 6 likes
      Matt Berkley‏ @mattberkley Feb 26
      Replying to @mattberkley @AndrewM_Fischer and

      I have written since 2003 on the key error of claiming economic gains and losses from "income" "data", ignoring costs, assets... http://www.mattberkley.com/socialscience.htm … Some influential policy conclusions fall apart when we consider real life. From 28 November 2003: https://web.archive.org/web/20070223160812/http:/www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/11/28-11-03/Discoverer.htm …pic.twitter.com/wiMFDf4AxJ

      2:17 AM - 26 Feb 2019
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