All must have prizes.

[davywavy]

Whilst I wouldn't be one to suggest that the school I went to when I were a lad might not be the tippest, toppest place in educational standards, it does dismay me to read their website and discover that they're reporting that of pupils taking their maths GCSE last year, 121% got grades A-C. (Copied and pasted from their own website).

Subject Entries A* A B C D E F G U X Q %A-C A*-G
Mathematics 278 2 15 48 56 60 47 30 10 8 2 0 121 268

Comments

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

That's presumably just a typo (of the % sign). Although I suppose 43.5% doesn't sound quite so impressive ;-)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nah, they've done it on all the results - it appears that the person inputting data believes you calculate a percentage by adding together all the qualifying people for a total.

Still, by that logic, roughly sixty million percent of people think that Gordon Brown is an imbecile - which sounds about right to me.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that second stat sounds believable. Of course, I don't think he's an imbecile, but only because I don't like using a word for "pork chop" as an insult. It's unveganly ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

That casts Jack Burton's truck in an entirely new light. Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

Not quite. Sixty million per cent of people in the UK think Gordon Brown is an imbecile, a complete Hoon in fact. However, if you go global.....

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Broon squirms

[(Anonymous)]

Off topic but I thought you'd appreciate this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs