I was explaining this to my mother, who said oh they know because of statistics. I was like OK, so how do you know those statistics are accurate. Oh because it came from the ONS (UK statistics authority), so I was like and what you know all the raw data they used is untampered and accurate, the exact method theyy used to extrapolate the data. On top of that you know exactly who was responsible for organising and working on the research collecting the data etc and that they are not corruptible by any means, such as perhaps 10,000 bonus in their back pocket. She couldn't answer.

People don't get it. Many people will do anything for money, hell people will inject themselves with unknown substances for money.