Lies, damned lies and statistics in Cambridge

Frustrated by the inaccuracies of so many real estate “statistics”, the first article I wrote for the Marblehead Reporter in 2008 was Lies, damned lies and statistics. My goal in Oliver Reports is both to report on numbers in real estate and explain their significance – or not. There is nothing I find more frustrating than seeing a number reported without context and without understanding from the writer. Which takes me to Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics in Cambridge. (more…)