The UK misreporting data. A thread for Scots:

I remember working on a particular project. I'm a Business Analyst.

We were to produce reporting data to the executive on various statistics relating to the Banks contact centre.

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UK Gov COVID Stats 👇
https://t.co/1pXGapctNH

How does this relate to the COVID stats you ask. Stick with it.

The bank call abandon rate was around 40%. So 40% of customer calls did not get answered on the customers first attempt to make contact.

So the bank employed agency staff to handle inbound calls.

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The result was that call abandonment dropped to around 5%.

Fabulous said everyone until I pointed out the obvious.

The agency staff, with little experience of that bank and its products, were simply taking customer details and putting them in a call back queue.

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A call bank queue that the banks' full-time staff would have to outbound call.

This meant that 35% of customers who called still did not have their enquiry dealt with and 5% who still didn't have their call answered at all.

So 'technically' STILL a 40% abandon rate.

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Now the UK Gov have a COVID 19 vaccination strategy that claims to have vaccinated 3.2 million people of the 65 million people in the UK.

In fact, a two-step process means that these people will not be 'fully vaccinated' until they have a second injection.

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45% of over 80s and 40% of care home residents have received their 'FIRST' 'jab' apparently.

They have not been 'fully vaccinated'.

So what is the point of this thread?

Well it illustrates two very important points for the people of Scotland (and elsewhere of course)

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1. Data Manipulation:

Data can be manipulated to show you whatever you want if you want to present it in a particular way.

Here the UK Government would have you believe that 3.2 million people have been vaccinated when in fact they are only halfway through the process.

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As with the bank, (where the exec thought the abandon rate dropped to 5%)

...THE REPORTING IS A DISTORTION OF THE ACTUAL EVENTS.

In other words, the UK governments reporting is not true. It is a cover-up of the real progress being made.

Now to very important point 2!

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2. Scottish Independence:

There are many statistics espoused by the UK government and their supporters.

Many that would see Scotland in a position where it would 'LOOK AS IF' we would be unable to support ourselves as an independent nation.

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Think for a minute.

If the UK Government blatantly lie at such a level where we can easily analyse and highlight the distortion with vaccination stats

...what do you think they will do to any figures in terms of providing proper analysis of Scotland or her resources?

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I think we can agree that statistics coming from Westminster will be, miscalculated (GERS), have missing resources (ship to ship oil transfer) or be underestimated (exports).

So when Westminster says you are too poor ...remember something about the British state ...

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UK Gov used the same propaganda tools and techniques when making the case against the independence, of ALL other nations in the 'Empire', that decided self-determination was best for them.

None have asked to return because they failed.

That's because none of them failed.

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Distorting Scotlands position in the world, financial or otherwise has been, and will continue to be their strategy.

That they would use a global pandemic and the vaccination process as a marketing tool to make themselves look good tells you all you need to know.

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So don't be surprised when they use distortion, lies and misinformation when trying to convince you (wrongly) that Scotland couldn't be an independent nation.

Of course we can.
We only need to vote for it.

Then we need to build the nation we want.

#ScottishIndependence

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The GOP got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster so they could jam through three fringy right-wing Alito clones, including one right before the election, but sure thing, bud.

“Uh, actually, they got rid of the SCOTUS filibuster because Harry Reid did it first for something totally different! I am very smart!”

No. Knock it off.

Here’s the thing about the “But Harry Reid...” excuse:

1. McConnell was holding up Obama nominees, some *for literal years* without a vote.

2. Had he *not* done that, Trump would have inherited *even more* vacant seats.
If you're curious what Trump's defense will look like, all you have to do is turn on Fox News. My latest at @mmfa

The tl;dr is that for years right-wing media have been excusing Trump's violent rhetoric by going, "Yes, but THE DEMOCRATS..." and then bending themselves into knots to pretend that Dems were calling for violence when they very, very clearly weren't.

And in fact, this predates Trump.

In 2008, Obama was talking about not backing down in the face of an ugly campaign. He said "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

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That quote was from the movie The Untouchables. And there's no way anybody reading that quote in good faith could conclude that he was talking about actual guns and knives. But it became a big talking point on the

In 2018, Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder was speaking to a group of Georgia Democrats about GOP voter suppression. He riffed on Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" line from the 2016 DNC.

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