Four Ways a Number Goes Wrong, Taken From Our Own Corrections
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Almost nothing we corrected this month was invented. The errors were stale figures, superseded documents, claims attached to the wrong subject, and numbers with no source at all — and each has a different tell.
11,458 Sick From Lettuce. The Number That Should Worry You Is 33 Days.
A cyclospora outbreak traced to imported iceberg lettuce has sickened 11,458 people across 20 states. Federal food-safety staffing really has been cut — but the cuts that matter here are not the ones being blamed, and the failure is in detection speed,…