Saturday, May 27, 2006
Scopal ambiguity in action
My Weetbix packet informs me that "40% of Australian kids go to school each day without breakfast." That's a lot of kids who never eat breakfast!
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Im unsure what you mean here? Are you saying you dont think that 40% dont have breakfast?
ReplyDeleteI expect they mean to claim that on any given day, 40% of schoolkids skipped breakfast.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite different from claiming that, for 40% of schoolkids, those kids go to school each and every day without breakfast.
(For further explanation, see my intro to Scopal Ambiguity.)
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