Today’s “Word of the Day” is “artefact“ and it is a noun meaning “a statistical analysis or an experimental finding that does not represent the ground reality, but rather is the (unintended) consequence of a flawed design or analytic error”.
Example Sentence: This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) did not go down well with the government. This was expected given that it ranks India 101 out of 116 countries for which reliable and comparable data exist. To add insult to injury, the GHI puts India far below some of its neighbouring countries… Is India’s performance on hunger as dismal as denoted by the index or is it partly a statistical artefact?…
This word is present in The Hindu article Alarming hunger or statistical artefact? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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