{"id":4090,"date":"2024-03-21T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2024-02-24T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T12:57:18","slug":"more-words-more-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/03\/more-words-more-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"More Words, More Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is simple math: the more words presented the more errors present. Rats.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a big benefit to brevity: fewer errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way to consider errors is to look at the number of errors per the number of words. Something like five errors per one-hundred words. That is 95% correct and is pretty darn good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given 500 words on a typed page, that means 25 errors. Seems like a lot, huh? Well, if our piece of writing is two pages long, that is 50 errors. Three pages? 75 errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aha, a simple way to reduce 75 errors down to only 25 errors: delete two of the three pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, but, and but. No buts. It is simple math. Don&#8217;t ya&#8217; just hate simple math? There must be a trick or a catch here, right? Nope. Simple math prevails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brevity reduces the number of errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips It is simple math: the more words presented the more errors present. Rats. There is a big benefit to brevity: fewer errors. One way to consider errors is to look at the number of errors per the number of words. Something like five errors per one-hundred words. That is 95% correct and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,32,105,329,361,316,5],"tags":[226,154,219,330,362,317,128],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brevity","category-communication","category-competence","category-error","category-expertise","category-improvement","category-writing","tag-brevity","tag-communication","tag-competence","tag-error","tag-expertise","tag-improvement","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}