Lots of people angry about this article: https://gma.yahoo.com/school-tells-tiny-girl-her-body-mass-index-191006800--abc-news-wellness.html … But nobody seems to have bothered to check the arithmetic!
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3) Parents, reporter, quoted sources kind-of reality-checked it, but couldn't be arsed to actually touch the numbers.
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@St_Rev Barbie says "Math is hard!" -
@random_eddie Note however that I am substantially wrong about this. -
@St_Rev Ah, yes, I was about to tell you that. :) I'm slowly catching up.
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@St_Rev Isn't the real story that it's not the education system's business to act as the obesity scold of the nation? -
@Spivonomist That's *a* story that is correct, but is actually blinding people from seeing what happened ehre. -
@St_Rev Innumeracy is nothing new, even (especially?) among school admin.
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@St_Rev Seems the calculation is right (17.9) but they can't read their own over/underweight tables...which is kind of worse...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev And no one else said, "wait, 17.9 is underweight..."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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