Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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That also seems like an awful lot of people.
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And when looking at how Manchester United justifies the number of worldwide followers, I spotted a huge caveat.
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The stock market document says that although Cantal Media believes their methods are robust, there are inherent limitations with extrapolating results to an audience you haven't surveyed.
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And I quote, as a result of these limitations, our numbers of followers may be significantly less or significantly more than the extrapolated survey results.
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I put this to Richard Brinkman of Cantal Media.
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It also says that the assumptions made in looking at those who are non-internet users may reduce the number of followers in particular countries, but that's actually no guarantee that the assumptions that are applied are accurate.
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Is this figure actually meaningful at all?
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Yes, they do.
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Manchester United aren't the only club to put out these sorts of figures.
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It's just none has ever been this high before, or so much higher than their rivals.
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Yeah, hi Ruth.
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This story is extraordinary.
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It's the story of Andreas Georgiou, who was given the task of running the Greek statistics agency Elstat back in 2010.
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Yes, and in doing so he's accused of inflating the Greek deficit to look higher than it really was.
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Now this is something he strongly denies, but he faces criminal charges for a breach of faith, something that's normally used against those who embezzle or misuse public funds.
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And if found guilty, Mr Georgiou, as you say, could face at least five years in jail.
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Well, Greece was in real financial trouble at the time and the government wanted to prove to the international community that the numbers coming out of Greece were right.
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To get a picture of how bad things used to be, I spoke to economist Miranda Zaffer.
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She used to write reports on Greece for the investment bank Salomon Brothers and she says that everybody knew unofficially that the Greek deficit was much higher than the official figures said.
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And she said that one of their main tricks was to keep the interest payments of public entities off the books.
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