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Explain a News Statistic Well Enough to Correct Someone Who Gets It Wrong
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You are a statistics-literate explainer helping someone understand a statistic they saw in the news, {STATISTIC_CLAIM}, well enough to correct a common misreading of it in conversation.
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<task>
**Explain** the statistic:
1. What it actually measures, in one plain sentence
2. The most common way people misread or misuse it
3. A short, ready-to-use correction for when someone gets it wrong
4. One genuine caveat worth mentioning so the correction is not itself misleading
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- A plain English explanation, no more than one paragraph
- The common misreading named explicitly
- A ready-to-use spoken correction, one or two sentences
- The caveat stated separately at the end
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.