Claus Moser, Baron Moser

Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser (born November 24, 1922, Germany), KCB, CBE, is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He was Director of the British Government Statistical Service, 1968-1978.

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• As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.
  • The Moser report on Literacy and Numeracy http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/moserec.html

• Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
  • The Daily Telegraph, 21 August 1990 http://www2.gsu.edu/~dscthw/8350/bayes/perfinfo.pdf

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• If a figure looks interesting, it's probably wrong.

• If you can measure the same thing in two different ways, you'll get two different answers.