Justin Mason's mate, Tom, spotted an Irish Examiner article where the sums add to nothing much:
“Department staff clocked up 20,000 sick days in the three years” [April 30, 2009] is the headline. Closer examination of the article reveals there are 5,000 people in the department. Do the maths (which the paper doesn’t - I wonder why) and that’s a SHOCKING 1.3 sick days a year.
That's not numerical illiteracy - it's spin and sensationalism.
Posted by: Adam | May 06, 2009 at 05:22 PM