Essayist and author Nassim Taleb is more than a little tedious on Twitter. But he gets one big thing very right. Skin in the game matters. Read more

In a letter to a select committee last week, Liz MacPherson, chief statistician of Statistics New Zealand (SNZ), said about 240,000 individuals had only partially completed the 2018 census. Read more

It seemed a simple enough question. It was, really. So why did it take more than two months to get an answer under the Official Information Act? Read more

A shocking 700,000 individuals - or 14.3 percent of New Zealand’s population - either partially completed or did not complete the 2018 Census. More shocking than the numbers themselves was how this information was made public. It was only under threat of parliamentary contempt that Liz MacPherson, Chief Statistician of Statistics New Zealand, finally revealed that last year’s Census was in worse condition than previously identified. Read more