THERE are always two sides to statistics. Living in a peripheral place, I am for example wary of press releases which tell me proudly that “90 per cent of Scotland” will be covered by such-and-such. OK, I think. But that means ten per cent won’t be – and guess where!
Yesterday’s Herald story about the state of Scotland’s school buildings is an example of the genre. It reported that the proportion of pupils in buildings rated “poor” or “bad” for their ability to support quality learning and teaching jumped to 11.4 per cent, the first rise since 2016.
