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overnment departments, as part of an overall \u201ctransparency policy\u201d by the government.<\/p>\nThis came in via the newsfeeds \u2013 I was surprised it wasn\u2019t via an email alert from the DSA, but I guess that will come later.<\/p>\n
The news release says that the DSA will start to publish its statistics each month, along with other government departments, as part of an overall \u201ctransparency policy\u201d by the government.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no substance to the rumour that it was Mike Penning\u2019s daughter\u2019s idea, and it appears he came up with this one all by himself.<\/p>\n
I think we need to wait to see what the \u201cchange\u201d brings. The DSA has published quite a lot of information for some time, and it can provide other data on request. However, what is clear that much of the time the DSA simply doesn\u2019t have the data because it hasn\u2019t recorded it either at all, or in the form that has been requested.<\/p>\n
A good example is when someone requests something stupid like \u201chow many ADIs passed part 3 on a Wednesday afternoon, and had an S in their names, between August 2010 and June 2011?\u201d The DSA simply cannot answer it \u2013 and yes, that IS the kind of idiotic request they often get.<\/p>\n
Seriously, though, some of the data could be quite useful \u2013 as you can see<\/a>. So we can probably expect a sudden rush of bad analyses from all those amateur statisticians out there (every ADI on the register considers themselves to be better at maths than Archimedes was).<\/p>\n