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So you contingently agree with the couple of minor contributions I've made, but then go on to ask a rhetorical, and Id wager unanswerable question.
No wonder this is a circular argument.

But if you want to add some weght to your argument feel to come back with anything remotely assembling stats to back up your couple of claims that its worse in respect to Govt stories



Or you can help me try and square this circle from Twitter today (Ponsonby)

Sarah Smith: "Last week over one hundred thousand patients waited more than four hours to be seen."
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There were 25,865 attendances at Emergency Departments across Scotland last week. Source. https://t.co/dcIm4ZsFXn

https://t.co/MMi27oN72T


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Yet:
According to her figures, 78% were seen in the target 4 hours. Therefore her "100,000" represents only 22% of total A&E attendances. So total attendance works out at over 454,000, i.e about 8.5% of Scottish population.

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Genuine question.. I'm open to any explanation
Sorry, to answer your question i dont know - maybe she confused last week with last month? Maybe she is just talking ******* - as we all know, stats can generally be massaged whatever way you want them, hence my distrust of them in argument.

But i dount she got an editorial line from her bosses / old school networks or anyone else, telling her to deliberately make stuff up to stick it to the nats.