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Yeah, incorrect (or more likely misunderstood) rounding is not a smoking gun, and is a pretty silly thing to try and use to "catch" somebody. I've actually regu
by version_five 3y ago
Yeah, incorrect (or more likely misunderstood) rounding is not a smoking gun, and is a pretty silly thing to try and use to "catch" somebody. I've actually regularly seen administrators with nothing to add to a discussion call numbers into question because they can't understand how rounded values may not add up exactly to a column total. For that reason, it's relatively common practice in consulting reports to fudge the numbers so the rounded values do add to the colum totals (there are a few other fudges like this to make numbers easier to understand). It's only actually dishonest or material if you then try and explain your conclusions based on the 0.01 you tweaked.
- IanCal 3y agoThe point more generally is figures that can't be reached with the denominator. Rounding errors can only account for some of that, but there's plenty of cases where it can't.