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Today I learned that a random clerk can make a typo that is only picked up months later and has significant costs impacts on the area. I wonder what would happe
by jay_kyburz 7y ago
Today I learned that a random clerk can make a typo that is only picked up months later and has significant costs impacts on the area. I wonder what would happen if the clerk made the mistake in the other direction many times over.
- Spooky23 7y agoThere are lots of obscure events that can do this. A few years ago a New York school district lost a few million dollars of aid because of a lottery winner tipping some state aid threshold.
- Aloha 7y ago452,000 it appears. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2017/07/one_mans_huge_lottery_win_costs_cny_school_district_452000_in_aid_district_says.html https://www.syracuse.com/news/2017/07/one_mans_huge_lottery_...
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- harikb 7y agoIt appears people who help design these formulas don’t know about mean vs median.
- nabdab 7y agoAnd apparently tons of entities throughout the county just went on with budget increases to the tune of 4.4 million from one year to the next and no one anywhere asked any questions... it seems almost unbelievable that everyone just didn’t notice or noticed without questioning any of the numbers. It might have been caused by a single error but the effects and shortfalls where widespread and significant.