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- W2355329522 abstract "Is there any point in quibbling about the technical meaning of words when politicians abuse technical meanings in order to change public perceptions? Those who work with numbers may mistakenly assume their precise meanings are understood by others. Misunderstanding gets worse when the precision of numbers is used to represent ideas, which are themselves complex and ‘woolly’. Publics, journalists and politicians may all struggle to understand and present such matters accurately. We may be irritated when statistics are used as factoids when the underlying facts have not been established. Examples in the field with which I’m most familiar often end with ‘well, it all depends on what you mean by poverty’. If you haven’t clarified that before starting, what on earth are you measuring so confidently (Veit-Wilson 2014)? All this gets worse when technical terms that do have generally agreed meanings are deliberately hijacked for ideological reasons. A recent example was George Osborne’s misappropriation of the quasi-technical term Living Wage (LW), which in his Budget Speech on 8 July 2015 he attached to a lower level of hourly wage rates under the title ‘national living wage’. As commentators remarked, this is simply a slightly higher rate of the statutory minimum wage. His aim was to steal the positive values associated with the Living Wage brand (LWF 2015) so that his intended audiences, probably no more epistemologically or methodologically sophisticated in the social sciences than he is, would believe that the new levels were based on the same conception and costs of what it means to ‘live’ decently as is the Living Wage. The real LW calculations are based on the minimum standards of decent participatory living held by the UK population. By contrast the statutory minimum wage is based on a totally different paradigm, that of ‘global competitiveness’ about the shares of production which go to capital (‘the needs of the economy’) or to labour. It is nothing more than a haggle over the competing demands of the employers, the trade unions and the government. The population’s own standards of decent living play no part in the minimum wage negotiations." @default.
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