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Explain a News Statistic Well Enough to Correct Someone Who Gets It Wrong
Someone at work quoted a statistic from the news with total confidence and got the meaning backwards. You knew something was off but could not say exactly why. This breaks the number down properly, gives you the common misreading by name, and hands you a short correction you can actually say out loud without sounding like a lecture.
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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.