Bad math plagues debate on sales tax proposal
You have every right to be skeptical about taking math counsel from an editor.
An old newsroom joke is that there are three kinds of journalists: those who can do math, and those who can’t.
But this lifelong baseball fan developed an appreciation for averages and percentages.
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