{"id":24743,"date":"2020-11-07T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=24743"},"modified":"2020-11-07T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:38:11","slug":"numbers-dont-add-up-in-bu-todays-compliance-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2020\/11\/07\/numbers-dont-add-up-in-bu-todays-compliance-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Don&#8217;t Add Up in BU Today&#8217;s Compliance Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/925040785&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wtbu\" title=\"wtbu\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wtbu<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wtbu\/numbers-dont-add-up-in-bu-todays-compliance-reports\" title=\"Numbers Don't Add Up in BU Today's Compliance Reports\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numbers Don&#8217;t Add Up in BU Today&#8217;s Compliance Reports<\/a><\/div>\n<p>By Yeelin Bacchus<\/p>\n<p>Graphics by Grace Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WTBU News has discovered discrepancies in three of BU Today&#8217;s weekly COVID Compliance Reports.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/weekly-covid-compliance-report-november-6\/?utm_campaign=bu_today&amp;utm_source=email_20201106_full&amp;utm_medium=2_must_read_3&amp;utm_content=community\">Nov. 6 report<\/a> falsely states that testing noncompliance had decreased from the previous week. It actually increased\u2014there were <strong>1,685<\/strong> warnings issued for testing noncompliance in this report and <strong>1,299<\/strong> in the last report.<\/p>\n<p>The description in that report also falsely equates the number of warnings issued with the number of students who are out of compliance. In fact, a student can receive multiple warnings in the same week, making the two numbers different.<\/p>\n<h6>The Nov. 6 report<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Nov-6-fact-check-w-stroke-636x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Nov-6-fact-check-w-stroke-636x159.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Nov-6-fact-check-w-stroke-1024x256.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Nov-6-fact-check-w-stroke-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Nov-6-fact-check-w-stroke-1536x384.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Nov-6-fact-check-w-stroke.jpg 1802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 30, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/weekly-covid-compliance-report-october-30\/\">the report<\/a> states that there were <strong>6,452<\/strong> instances of testing and attestation noncompliance. But adding the number of warnings issued for testing and attestation for that week only gives a total of <strong>4,404<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 30 report also says there were fewer instances of noncompliance compared with the previous week\u2019s number of <strong>6,979<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/weekly-covid-compliance-report-october-23\/\">the report<\/a> released the week before, on Oct. 23, shows 5,489 instances of attestation noncompliance and 146 instances of testing noncompliance which makes for a total of <strong>5,635<\/strong>. Not <strong>6,979<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h6>The Oct. 30 report<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-30-fact-check-w-stroke-636x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-30-fact-check-w-stroke-636x133.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-30-fact-check-w-stroke-1024x214.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-30-fact-check-w-stroke-768x161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-30-fact-check-w-stroke-1536x321.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-30-fact-check-w-stroke.jpg 1802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the third time the number <strong>6,979<\/strong> has shown up in BU Today&#8217;s compliance reports, and the second time it has been incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 23 report also says there were <strong>6,979<\/strong> instances of attestation noncompliance in the previous week. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/weekly-covid-compliance-report-october-16\/\">Oct. 16th report<\/a> only shows <strong>4,503<\/strong> instances of attestation noncompliance.<\/p>\n<h6>The Oct. 23 report<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-23-fact-check-w-stroke-636x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-23-fact-check-w-stroke-636x175.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-23-fact-check-w-stroke-1024x282.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-23-fact-check-w-stroke-768x211.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-23-fact-check-w-stroke-1536x423.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2020\/11\/Oct-23-fact-check-w-stroke.jpg 1802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report on Oct. 16 puts the previous week\u2019s attestation noncompliance at <strong>6,979<\/strong> too. However, this is accurate as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2020\/weekly-covid-compliance-report-october-9\/\">Oct. 9 report<\/a> does have <strong>6,979<\/strong> instances of attestation noncompliance. That figure does not include testing noncompliance.<\/p>\n<p>BU Today has not responded to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wtbu \u00b7 Numbers Don&#8217;t Add Up in BU Today&#8217;s Compliance Reports By Yeelin Bacchus Graphics by Grace Ferguson &nbsp; WTBU News has discovered discrepancies in three of BU Today&#8217;s weekly COVID Compliance Reports. The Nov. 6 report falsely states that testing noncompliance had decreased from the previous week. It actually increased\u2014there were 1,685 warnings issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1597,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24743"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24765,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions\/24765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}