Richard Knight
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74 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2015
Richard Knight’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's fair enough, but the survey is, of course, self-reported.
You're phoned up and asked, are you disabled, according to that criteria.
It's up to you to decide whether you are or not.
And somebody involved in this survey, a DWP person, did tell me that they considered the definition to be about as broad brush as you can get.
Those were his words.
They could well do that, and that might very well be reasonable.
Bad backs can, of course, be really incapacitating, but I suspect that's not the kind of thing Sally has in mind when she thinks about what it means to be disabled, and I think that's why the figure looked really high to her.
That 90% figure was taken from a poll conducted by Scope, or at least commissioned by Scope, the disability charity, and conducted by Comres, the pollsters.
Now, we've looked at the raw data.
When they ask the question of their respondents, have you ever invited a disabled person into your house for a social occasion, they don't qualify what it is to be disabled.
And I think it's probably a pretty safe bet to suggest that
the definition in the minds of many of those polled on that occasion would have been a lot narrower than the definition supplied by the DWP to the people they phone up.
Yeah, so we're not saying either number's necessarily dodgy, but quoting them both in the same breath is a little bit misleading because you are talking really about two different groups of people here.
Well, he was, Tim, but remember, he was killed last week by a freak sound effect.
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