Sometimes statistical flaws in reports are not immediately apparent at scientific meetings.
Flaws in Reports and Regulation of Devices For Heart Patients Lead to Calls for Change Flaws in the reporting of defects in medical devices by their makers and loose federal oversight of manufacturers have led to calls for change in how and when companies and the Food and Drug Administration alert doctors about malfunctions and, in turn, what physicians tell patients.
Growing public skepticism has, in recent months, been attributed to news reports about e-mail messages hacked from the computer system at the University of East Anglia in Britain (characterized as showing climate scientists colluding to silence unconvinced colleagues) and by the discoveries of alleged flaws in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
As early as 1984 The Daily News published an article pointing to flaws in the reporting.
The incident came at a bad time for Mr. Thompson, who was appointed in 2004, after the previous director general, Greg Dyke, resigned when a judicial inquiry found flaws in BBC reporting on the British government's case for war in Iraq.
A furore erupted between the government, led by chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell, and the BBC, which refused to back down, having failed to spot the flaws in its reporting.
Estimates of fertility may be flawed by certain degree of errors in reporting of ages and births.
Constantine Gatsonis, director of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown University and co-chair of the committee that authored a National Academy of Sciences report on flaws in autopsy reporting noted.
Why did Mr Murdoch so covet the Wall Street Journal if he perceived so many flaws in its reporting?
The findings, which surprised some top Air Force officials, also singled out serious flaws in the reporting of sexual assault claims and assistance to victims.
