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1 sauceruney  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 5:31:57pm

I just read about this on ThinkProgress. I don’t expect any of the people who hold austerity dear to their blackened hearts will give it up so quickly.

2 SteveMcGazi  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 6:27:09pm

So if I read it right it really wasn’t Excel that caused the problem but the writers’ shady use of data.

3 Skip Intro  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 6:44:42pm

re: #2 SteveMcGazi

So if I read it right it really wasn’t Excel that caused the problem but the writers’ shady use of data.

That’s right. I kept the original title, but it is misleading.

4 SteveMcGazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:48:04am

You should work for HuffPo!

5 Kruk  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 1:06:30am

The single worst moment of my PhD: realising Excel had flipped some* the 20,000 odd medicine registration dates I had entered from the British (DDMMYY) to the American (MMDDYY) date format.

*Some but crucially not all. Right then I had no way of knowing which was which. I figured it out, but for a few days I thought months of data entry had gone to waste,


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