How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers

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The British Government's official figures on the level of illegal file sharing in the UK come from questionable research commissioned by the music industry, the BBC has revealed.

The Radio 4 show More or Less - which is devoted to the "often abused but ever ubiquitous world of numbers" - decided to examine the Government's claim that 7m people in Britain are engaged in illegal file sharing.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/351331/how-uk-government-spun-136-people-into-7m-illegal-file-sharers

Classic bust :cool:
 
Wonder what the margin of error is considering such a small sample group. I'm sure it could be around 10%, meaning the figure could well be 3.5m!
 
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