Did Ask Marilyn get it wrong this time?

Did Ask Marilyn get it wrong this time?
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answer:Proofreaders know no math. I got a chance to read a peer-reviewed journal-published paper, sciency stuff. And the data in the main table – which was the point of discussion of the entire article – had a column where the presented average was greater than any of the contributing amounts. It was impossible on the face of it, but no one even looked apparently.
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