At times, what statisticians say can be more revealing than the statistics they present. This was certainly the case with Ma Jiantang of China’s National Bureau of Statistics when he commented this month on the country’s latest national income figures. His observation that “2012 will be a year of complexity and challenges”, was a masterpiece of understatement.
有些时候，统计学家的话可能比他们提供的统计数字更能道出实情。当manb