Tips on handling numbers
Wednesday Aug 19, 2009
"Studies show that only roughly 22% (21.06% to be precise) of journalists are numerate, a one percent decrease from last year, when around 23% (23.74%) were found capable of handling figures (separate studies also found that 74.62% of statistics are made up)." What's wrong with this sentence? CEJA provides 10 tips for journalists to avoid some of the more obvious numerical errors.

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