I love the ambiguity in this clipping taken from Personnel Today magazine (and sorry it's wonky, that's just my usual inability to cut and/or scan things straight):
Does this mean that 12% of teachers who have been attacked by a pupil subsequently needed to visit a doctor, or that 12% of teachers have been attacked by a pupil and subsequently needed to visit a doctor?
If you can't see or don't care about the difference, you might not want to become a sub...
Teachers, doctors, pupils and statistics
Posted by
JD (The Engine Room)
on Thursday 29 May 2008
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2 comments:
Seems to me it could also include teachers who need to visit a doctor but don't do so... and the pupil referred to in this story must be a real monster!
Mmmmmmmmmmm Structural Ambiguity! So tasty....
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