Letter to BS: Suspect data makes outlandish claim against govt doctors

'To test the veracity of this statement I posted this statement on the Facebook'

Aakar Patel in his article in the Business Standard on February 2 mentioned the following: “A study by MIT's Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee showed that there was a 97 per cent chance that a government doctor in India would diagnose your ailment wrong”.

This being a highly suspect assertion, I wanted to verify if the authors have actually said so. I bought the book called “Poor Economics” written by them and I did not find it there. So I wrote to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo if they have written it anywhere else. I wrote to Aakar Patel