Do the numbers add up? — Fact-Check Room · Free Press
The Mossville Gazette's maths-loving editor hands you a pile of sentences with numbers. Some are right, some would mislead readers.
Your task
Mark each sentence true or false. Work the numbers out yourself.
- A rise from 2 to 3 is 'one more' and also '50% more', because 1 is half of 2. A small survey cannot speak for a whole town.
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Score
- How news works — You understood how this part of journalism works.
- Truth & accuracy — You checked the facts before telling them.
- Fair & kind — You were fair to the people in the story.
In real life
Many newsrooms ask a second person to re-check every number before a story is printed, because number mistakes are among the most common errors.
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