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Rapid course · Lesson 18 · English
Course code: OCA-020Lesson 18: OCA-020-A018

Six of twenty is a sentence, not a Wilson column

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Lesson map

Lesson 18. Map, example, EX064.

flowchart TD
  P["Prose: 6 of 20 drafts, interval roughly 15 to 52 percent"] --> N["Not a line of Lab S"]
  L["Lab S first row: successes=3/20"] --> N

The mailbox sentence and the first Wilson row use different numerators.

Logical drawing

prose numerator: 6 of 20 drafts
prose interval words: roughly 15–52%
Lab S first row: successes=3/20 rate=0.150 wilson95=[0.052, 0.360]
Lab S does not print 6

Learning outcomes

After this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Keep Omar's 6-of-20 sentence in the pilot narrative.
  2. Keep 3/20 as the first Wilson row.
  3. Refuse a fourth Wilson row whose numerator is 6.

18.1 The mailbox test is described in words. The script's first row is a different count.

The worked pilot says Omar prepared 20 test messages for mailboxes T1–T5, and that 6 of the 20 drafts included an attachment suggestion. The same passage gives the interval in words: roughly 15–52 percent. Sending was disabled, so the sentence also says nothing left the tenant. Those clauses are prose. They sit in the chapter about permission and in the later adoption paragraph. They are not format strings.

Lab S's first call is wilson(3, 20). The printed line is successes=3/20 rate=0.150 wilson95=[0.052, 0.360]. The numerator is 3. A reader who pastes 6 into that line, or who pastes "roughly 15–52%" under the three Wilson rows as if the script had printed it, has built a column the file does not contain. The script also prints 30/200 and 300/2000. It does not print 6, 15, or 52.

Both facts can stand. The pilot sentence records a synthetic mailbox exercise. The Wilson rows record the function's own inputs. They must not be stacked into one table with a shared numerator.

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Object Numerator it actually uses
Pilot sentence 6 drafts out of 20
First Wilson row 3 out of 20
Second and third Wilson rows 30 and 300
A row for 6 Not printed

18.2 Worked example

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Edit someone proposes Decision
Leave "6 of 20" in the pilot paragraph Keep
Leave "roughly 15–52%" beside that sentence Keep
Insert successes=6/20 under the Wilson block Refuse
Replace 3/20 with 6/20 because both feel like "about 20 trials" Refuse

Synthetic case. Both counts are invented for the book. Neither count is a client incident.

Errors and limits

Similar denominators are a common way to weld two measurements into one. Here the numerators disagree, and only one of them is a script column.

Apply

  • EX064 — Two numerators. Where does 6 of 20 live, and what does Lab S print instead?
    Show marking criteria
    Rubric: 3 = 6 of 20 and roughly 15–52% are prose about the drafts; Lab S prints 3/20, 30/200 and 300/2000; it does not print 6;; 2 = prose versus the first Wilson row;; 1 = names one numerator;; 0 = adds a 6/20 Wilson row.
Worked answers

EX064. Six of twenty drafts, and the words "roughly 15–52%", are sentences about the pilot test. Lab S prints successes=3/20, then 30/200, then 300/2000. It does not print 6. The two numerators stay in their own places.