Probably.
But also, c’mon, use decimals to break that tie!!
Also, it’s nothing to brag about, since it implies larger classroom sizes (all admin proportionately equal).
Took me a second to see it as well. I’m assuming they just got it backwards, which would mean Utah actually has the worst ratio. Smaller class sizes are generally better for the students.
A321, what is the source of this questionable fact?
FB page of Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research.
They say it comes from their Datalabs but I went to that site and can’t find it there either.
Here is the FB Link.
You know I’m not going there.
I read it that they’re looking at “employees per student” . . . but real question is what qualifies as “employee” for this ratio?
Janitors? Cafeteria ladies? Bureaucratic administrators? Crossing guards? Bus drivers?
But 18:1 Employees:Student? Even if you count all those others, I really hope you don’t get to 18 employees for every student.
As others said, I’m sure it is supposed to be Students:Employees. Utah has nearly 700K students K-12 so that would be over 12M employees and there are only about 3.5M people in Utah, including all the students and babies and retired people.
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One of my Econ professors did this for a side gig. He was hired to be an expert witness in cases where someone had been killed, and he presented different ways to value a life so damages could be assessed. Interesting guy.
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Sydney Trains (Australia) is on the lookout for innumeracy. Over the loudspeaker “if you see or hear something that doesn’t add up, speak up”.
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Not sure where the innumeracy would be . . . opportunity to make a bit more profit, sure!
I’ll take 2 3oz cups of Guac, please.
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“If I had a dime for every time I did this…”
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idk, they got like 4/7 of that correct
Not innumeracy, maybe “actuaries NOT consulted when they should be,” or something like that.
“Grey Divorce”:
Divorce is greying.
The US has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, even though over the past four decades, it has fallen among younger couples. Instead, middle-aged and older adults have taken over. In fact, adults aged 65 and older are now the only age group in the US with a growing divorce rate. For the over-50s, the rate also rose for decades, but has now stabilised.
Today, roughly 36% of people getting divorced are 50 and older, compared to only 8.7% in 1990. This is known as a “grey divorce”.
This tilt towards later-in-life divorce is happening for a mix of reasons, studies suggest. Lives are longer than they used to be, for a start, and older couples may be less willing to put up with unfulfilling marriages than before. Meanwhile, young people are getting married later and have become more selective when choosing a partner. As one researcher puts it, “the United States is progressing toward a system in which marriage is rarer and more stable than it was in the past”.
Also, Boomers still make up a large part of people and married people, and, of course, divorced people. That skews the statistics. Also, studies show (?) that divorced people are more likely to get divorced again, and this cohort is also more Boomers and thus increasing the 50+ married people getting divorced.
Answer when demographics are involved almost always involves Boomers.
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Yes, it’s an annoying article that doesn’t really talk about rates within cohorts. The only thing I could find in the referenced abstract was -
The gray divorce rate climbed from five divorcing persons per 1,000 married persons aged 50 and older in 1990 to 10 per 1,000 in 2010.
I couldn’t find anything about the rates for over 65 (or even 50-65 so I could work out the difference), even though most of the abstract was about that.