How about yourself gaining an understanding of facts and statistics and not presenting the findings of a study as you did when it suggests that 17% of UK school

How about yourself gaining an understanding of facts and statistics and not presenting the findings of a study as you did when it suggests that 17% of UK school leavers are functionally innumerate (limited to “very basic competence in maths, mainly limited to arithmetical computations and some ability to comprehend and use other forms of mathematical information”) and 22% are functionally illiterate (i.e. have "less than the functional literacy needed to partake fully in employment, family life and citizenship and to enjoy reading for its own sake"). NOR for that matter does it suggest that 20% are both illiterate AND innumerate. There may be some overlap but instinctively I'd guess that the % of people that are both is significantly below 20%. For me this is a prime example of the real failings of our educational system - school leavers have completely deficient bullshit-radars, zero healthy skepticism, and a complete inability to spot false inferences. Coupled with a total reticence to go to the source of so-called 'facts'. The worst thing is that our media (which, in this day and age, you are now part of, in broadcasting these findings) is amongst the worst culprit (and thus in my eyes, most educationally deficient), as are our politicians (save for a few brave souls like Dr Evan Harris, sadly voted OUT of his seat as an Oxford MP last week), who even if they aren't, are slaves to the media in any case.