Well done to @OfficialUoM for publishing positive Covid cases at the university. manchester.ac.uk/coronavirus/ca… This draws attention to the university, and raises questions as to why this hasn't been updated for a few days. But it is a good thing to be public, and should be encouraged.
We can see apparent outbreaks at other universities. Here's the location of @UniofExeter (21-27 September cases) - would be good to have a dashboard of cases.
.@carlbaker is methodically keeping track of cases per MSOA (area of around 8000 people) highlighting locations with more than 15 cases and also more than 20% students.
"Inflation is currently 10%. If inflation halves, how much will a £1 pint of milk cost".
Sounds easy. It's not. It's ambiguous. It's not a good question. Unless it's designed to be a bad question. In which case it's a good question.
1. It talks about 'inflation'. But *what* inflation? At the moment, we have overall inflation at roughly 10% but inflation of food at roughly 20%. So is the overall inflation rate the same as the inflation rate for milk? It's not clear. Bad question.
First, the @ONS Covid Infection Survey is being paused, and @CovidGenomicsUK is being retired. This will have implications for data reliability and availability going forward.
OK, I'm going to write a response to this maths problem, published in @DailyMailUK, that has caused a lot of comment, some thinking the answer is 1 and some thinking the answer is 9.
Many of us would go straight to the answer 1. That's because we know (or our children know, and have taught us), that there is a 'rule' for how you deal with the order of doing the calculation - do you do + first or ÷, for example?
Enter BIDMAS (or BODMAS).
"It stands for Brackets, Indices [or Order], Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction."
That's the conventional order. Forget about indices [or order] for now - that's not important for this one. bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topic…