Originally Posted by plib
I think the concept of requiring a physical visit is related to studies such as this one. It's probably tied in to the UK government's general addiction to form filling, statistics, centrally generated "standards of service" and other bureaucratic wonders. The kind that lead police to classify a stolen laptop as a "loss" rather than a "theft" if the victim didn't actually see it happen, so as to protect their "crime clearance" statistics. Or the kind that lead schools to divert students from harder, but more valuable, GCSE subjects to easier ones to protect their "A to C pass rates".
Of course it still doesn't explain why he thinks it's somehow harder to count web page hits or ebooks borrowed online than physical "footfall", but then he is an MP. |