Try your hand at spotting misleading numbers. Most of these are from real articles. Try to either a) locate the misleading information or b) note what information would be needed to determine if the numbers make sense. 1. (David Horowitz) "Teachers, despite widespread myth are overpaid and underworked. They are not required to be at their job more than 6 hours and 20 minutes a day. When you add to that teachers only work nine months out of the year, and then calculate teachers pay on the basis of the eight-hour day and 11 and a half-month year that the rest of us work, the pay for a seventh-grade teacher in New York City is between $60 and $70 an hour. This amounts to an average salary of well over $100,000 a year." 2. (Study by the Transactional Records access Clearinghouse, a non-profit group affiliated with Syracuse University) "Northern California is nearly last in the nation for U.S. drug cases. Out of 90 U.S. judicial districts, Northern California ranked 82nd in the number of drug prosecutions from 1993-1995." 3. (U.S. News and World Report) In February 2001, they published this list implying that United, American, and Delta were the worst airlines. Most complaints, Nov.00 United Airlines 252 American Airlines 162 Delta Air Lines 119 Fewest Alaska Airlines 13 Southwest Airlines 22 Continental Airlines 60 4. (National Resources Defense Council) "A well-run curbside recycling program can cost anywhere from $50 to more than $150 per ton of materials collected. Typical trash collection and disposal programs, on the other hand, cost anywhere from $70 to more than $200 per ton. Try your hand at spotting misleading numbers. Most of these are from real articles. Try to either a) locate the misleading information or b) note what information would be needed to determine if the numbers make sense. 1. (David Horowitz) "Teachers, despite widespread myth are overpaid and underworked. They are not required to be at their job more than 6 hours and 20 minutes a day. When you add to that teachers only work nine months out of the year, and then calculate teachers pay on the basis of the eight-hour day and 11 and a half-month year that the rest of us work, the pay for a seventh-grade teacher in New York City is between $60 and $70 an hour. This amounts to an average salary of well over $100,000 a year." 2. (Study by the Transactional Records access Clearinghouse, a non-profit group affiliated with Syracuse University) "Northern California is nearly last in the nation for U.S. drug cases. Out of 90 U.S. judicial districts, Northern California ranked 82nd in the number of drug prosecutions from 1993-1995." 3. (U.S. News and World Report) In February 2001, they published this list implying that United, American, and Delta were the worst airlines. Most complaints, Nov.00 United Airlines 252 American Airlines 162 Delta Air Lines 119 Fewest Alaska Airlines 13 Southwest Airlines 22 Continental Airlines 60 4. (National Resources Defense Council) "A well-run curbside recycling program can cost anywhere from $50 to more than $150 per ton of materials collected. Typical trash collection and disposal programs, on the other hand, cost anywhere from $70 to more than $200 per ton