I believe the data, but the numbers given on that data sheet aren't percentages :-)
> Pregnancy rates are the number of pregnancies per 1,000 females age 15 to 19 years
95.46 pregnancies / 1000 females = 9.546%
(actually, you can't infer an exact percentage of girls who became pregnant from this statistic, as one female can have multiple pregnancies within a year, but you get what I mean)
cut some slack - maybe she's busy you know, helping 30-odd underpriveledged kids expand their horizons. when the heck did this community start only focussing on the nitpicking? as the OP said 'small point'...
Nitpicking* when it comes to facts and figures is important and should be expected. It's very very easy for someone to cite an inaccurate fact and for that new "fact" to become accepted and cited elsewhere, lots of people will blindly cite things they've seen elsewhere. It's also the case that a specific fact can change how someone views the topic at hand. Although in this case 96% is obviously an error, it's still an error that should be fixed.
The person you replied to has deleted their comment so I guess maybe they were being an abusive asshole about it, which is certainly not needed.
* Nitpicking implies the things aren't important so I guess that's the wrong word, but I tried to be consistent with your comment.
I've been teaching kids to code for over 10 years now. It's an exciting time to be a computer programming teacher. The amount of resources (mostly free) that make teaching young people computer programming easier and far more enjoyable have grown exponentially since I started teaching. The last two to three years in particular have seen an explosion of online education sites and materials.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 49.8 ms ] threadFYI the University of Texas at Austin has a similar camp: First Bytes[1], which is free to attend if you get accepted.
[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/outreach/first-bytes
small point, but this is inconsistent - I suspect you mean 9.546%. a 95% teen pregnancy rate would be somewhat surprising ...
http://www.health.ny.gov/funding/rfa/inactive/1007301230/att...
> Pregnancy rates are the number of pregnancies per 1,000 females age 15 to 19 years
95.46 pregnancies / 1000 females = 9.546%
(actually, you can't infer an exact percentage of girls who became pregnant from this statistic, as one female can have multiple pregnancies within a year, but you get what I mean)
The person you replied to has deleted their comment so I guess maybe they were being an abusive asshole about it, which is certainly not needed.
* Nitpicking implies the things aren't important so I guess that's the wrong word, but I tried to be consistent with your comment.