Editor fail
I couldn't make heads or tails out of this article. The author keeps jumping around with his numbers, citing confusing metrics like "death rates for workers over 65 saw a huge difference, nearly 10 percent per 100,000 compared to less than 2 percent for 18- and 19-year-olds". What is ten percent per 100,000? It might mean any of
Or how about "Men of a certain age suffered 1,728 fatalities in 2016, while only 110 women died." How old is a certain age? Does he mean over 65 years old? Over 60? Over 40? Is the 1728 all from injuries or does it also include heart attacks and strokes occurring on the job?
I can't tell whether there is a genuine pandemic of older workers being killed or just a collection of cherry-picked anecdotes.
A competent editor (as a novelist I know several good ones) would have sent this article back for a rewrite.
I couldn't make heads or tails out of this article. The author keeps jumping around with his numbers, citing confusing metrics like "death rates for workers over 65 saw a huge difference, nearly 10 percent per 100,000 compared to less than 2 percent for 18- and 19-year-olds". What is ten percent per 100,000? It might mean any of
Or how about "Men of a certain age suffered 1,728 fatalities in 2016, while only 110 women died." How old is a certain age? Does he mean over 65 years old? Over 60? Over 40? Is the 1728 all from injuries or does it also include heart attacks and strokes occurring on the job?
I can't tell whether there is a genuine pandemic of older workers being killed or just a collection of cherry-picked anecdotes.
A competent editor (as a novelist I know several good ones) would have sent this article back for a rewrite.