a. Explain how the author probably got the “79 percent higher” statementin the third paragraph of the Numbed by the Numbers article. Critique themethod that you come up with.b. Discuss whether or not the “79 percent higher” statement in the paper isaccurate. If not accurate, is there a way to state it precisely? Some people in the newspaper business-including, I suspect, a few sitting upstairs fromme, in the New York Times Company's corporate offices were displeased by a story thatran on Jan. 10, "Your Daily Paper, Courtesy of a Sponsor." The article, by Jacques Stein-berg and Tom Torok, was a pretty sharp pin stuck into the circulation numbers of manyAmerican newspapers, revealing how subscriptions paid for by advertisers are deliveredto readers who haven't asked for them.I fielded a couple of days' worth of objections from the newspaper industry, and while Iconcluded that the piece was largely fair and entirely accurate (if somewhat overstated), Ido think it could have been more candid about The Times's own practices. Readers whowanted to know how The Times fitted into this story didn't find out until (more likely,"unless") they made it to the 30th paragraph; the practices at The Boston Globe, ownedby The New York Times Company, were unveiled in Paragraph 27. Even then the articlewas slightly less than forthcoming. By studying circulation patterns of Sunday papers, thearticle made The Times appear less reliant on these advertiser-subsidized subscriptionsthan it would have if the comparisons had been based on weekday circulation.In fact, one could say there's a stark difference: according to the most recent availablenumbers, the quantity of the paper's third-party-paid subscriptions on a given weekday is79 percent higher than the comparable Sunday number.This sounds very ominous. It sounds somewhat less ominous when you realize that thesesame third-party-paid subscriptions account for 1.4 percent of Sunday circulation, and2.5 percent of weekday circulation. And it sounds not even worth noting (take a deepbreath here) if you consider that the difference between the number of weekday subsi-dized copies and Sunday subsidized copies is 0.4 percent of weekday circulation, and0.27 percent of Sunday circulation.

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Explain how the author probably got the “79 percent higher” statement in the third paragraph of the Numbed by the Numbers article. Critique the method that you come up with. b. Discuss whether or not the “79 percent higher” statement in the paper is accurate. If not accurate, is there a way to state it precisely?

Explain how the author probably got the “79 percent higher” statement in the third paragraph of the Numbed by the Numbers article. Critique the method that you come up with. b. Discuss whether or not the “79 percent higher” statement in the paper is accurate. If not accurate, is there a way to state it precisely?

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