Claim ‘nine in 10’ teachers voted to strike is misleading

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  1. *Didn’t stop the news to mislead with Brexit…*

    Either way, the sentence is absolutely correct, *9 in 10 did vote to strike*, even if only 40ish% turned up to vote.

    *Strike must mean Strike.*

  2. The fact checker is misleading – it is rare for non-voters to be counted in such stats, and if they are it’s usually a trick to fix the result the way someone wants. By saying ‘voted’ it’s implicitly obvious that it will mean ‘of those who voted’. The non-voters didn’t seem to have voted no either.

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