{"id":1753,"date":"2009-10-30T06:03:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2009-10-30T06:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:03:32","slug":"do-times-reporters-know-the-difference-between-percentages-and-raw-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Do Times reporters know the difference between percentages and raw numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect the following is an unfortunate placement by the reporter on a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/30\/education\/30college.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">record high <strong>percentages <\/strong>of young adults in college<\/a> (with an emphasis on <i>percentages<\/i>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s behind this,&#8221; Mr. [Richard] Fry added, &#8220;is that we have the biggest pool of young adults we&#8217;ve ever had who&#8217;ve finished high school.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect that this is in reference to the growth of enrollment in two-year colleges, not total college-going. That distinction was not clear in the article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect the following is an unfortunate placement by the reporter on a story about record high percentages of young adults in college (with an emphasis on percentages): &#8220;What&#8217;s behind this,&#8221; Mr. [Richard] Fry added, &#8220;is that we have the biggest pool of young adults we&#8217;ve ever had who&#8217;ve finished high school.&#8221; I suspect that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-sh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}