Shaun Lintern's analysis of NHS earnings

Its that time of month again whereby I am compelled to write yet another article on Shaun Lintern.  I must point out that when I first decided to write a blog my aim was to write about the misuse of statistics used by the media and politicians, little did I know that the majority of it would be concerning Shaun Lintern.
This is not a deliberate or personal attack on Shaun Lintern per se but to merely set the record straight regarding his misuse of statistics.  Today's blog is not about misuse of statistics but rather his claims to them and the personal smears which accompanied them.
I will always challenge dodgy statistics because I believe the public deserve to know the truth about what is happening in our NHS and we should have the right to question someone who misleads the public without being smeared at.

Today Shaun announced that he had carried out an "analysis" for HSJ.

When further questions where put to Shaun about these figures he could not answer

I did ask for his source and after much to-ing and fro-ing he eventually gave me the link to the spreadsheets from HSCIC.

http://t.co/oiC3VCh2X8

If you download the spreadsheet and turn to table 2b, you will see that in fact HSCIC has done the "analysis" - not Shaun but credit where credit's due Shaun did come up with a pretty picture - unless someone else came up with that as well.

Now Shaun knows I know what has happened i.e. he tried to pass off someone else's work as his own but instead of owing up he labels me a "troll" in order to deflect from the subject and to smear me.
His tweet tonight - which is frankly so embarrassing for him that I will not post it here; is another ploy to smear and play the victim with some actually falling for it, but as they say you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all of the time!

Needless to say the figures Shaun quoted are wrong - the HSCIC spreadsheet does carry a warning that they are estimates and "experimental".  I won't embarrass HSCIC by publishing their mistakes but I firmly believe that no professional journalist would take these stats and publish them without checking first their validity but then in order to check their validity one would need to have a degree of maths knowledge which Shaun Lintern clearly does not have.
So my advice is once again to treat any stats that Shaun Lintern produces with extreme caution and if in doubt ask Shaun to produce his math formulas, that should separate the wheat from the shaft!