Sleep: With The Fishes

"Sleeping with the fishes" is what a mobster says about someone they've killed. And in this exercise, we have some people who are proverbially fish-sleeping because they fataled. Let's look:

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PROBLEM: We spelled the researcher's last name as Grant, when in fact it was Gant.

SOLUTION: You know this one: double-check all spellings of any noun (person, place or thing), statistical unit and quotes to make sure what you wrote is correct.

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PROBLEM: Misspellings inside of quotes that changed exercise and second to a misspelled version of the words, excercise and secoond; and changed the plural subjects to the singular subject, minus the s at the end.

SOLUTION: Use spell check to catch obvious misspellings like in the former cases. With the latter, make sure we go through quotes word-for-word against our notes to make sure what we are quoting is exactly what was said.

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We know what to do, folks. We just need to do it. We need to check our basic facts, and we need to do it every time.