Not really innumeracy, just poorly worded imo. The 2020 study describes the weather phenomenon that caused the 2021 freeze, but it uses data from 2018/2019.
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Email today
The city of Actuaryville has begun hosting Restaurant Week, which is taking place from Monday, February 17th until Sunday, March 2nd.
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Just a simple floor function. It’s just a tick under 2 weeks → 1 week!
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To be fair, 1995 does feel like it was 65 years ago (not that I’ve lived 65 years yet, but long enough to imagine how long that is)
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It’s been a long week.
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Is this Innumeracy, poor, or correct:
(i.e., is “8:03.39 seconds” clearly 8 minutes, 3.39 seconds? Would just “8:03.39” be better or worse?)
The exclamation point may complicate things further, as “he finished in 8:03.39!” could then be interpreted as a factorial 
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better
Haverford has had some very good runners, so a school record there is no joke!
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You would expect congress.gov could do relatively simple income tax calcs.
They can do some. For example, joint taxable income of 394,600: 35,302+0.24(394,600-206,700)=80,398, as shown.
But not all. joint taxable income of 501,050: 80,398+0.32(501,050-394,600)=114,462 vs their 114,162
Why I hate to type numbers in. Try to figure a way that you can pull that number from a function. typing 1 instead of 4 or 4 instead of 7 is a classic typo.
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I don’t view typos as being innumeracy.
Something to mock and ridicule? Sure thing . . . that’s what we’re here for.
But it’s not a source of innumeracy.
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Gotta wonder just how much shipping was . . .
But apart from the “xxx.99” part, this seems to be another candidate for a typo (the 8 key is right above the 5 key) .. .
Is that the savings after tariffs??
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Perhaps Innumeracy is not the right place for it. Deal with it.
CBS News confirms (it happened in 2000)
[tl;dr]The key used for scoring some papers did not match the order of the questions on the test.
the old article is old for reasons obvious (sen wellstone is long dead) and subtle (i knew a person in this and they have long since retired). MN no longer has this test afaik
The first screenshot showed up in my Facebook feed today.
I would think there’s some sort of coding for that kinda stuff and no one is hand-typing that.