2010/08/09 Spinach - how a data quality mistake created a myth and a cartoon character
Since data quality blogging can be dry and technical I thought I would talk about one of my favourite data quality mistakes to spice things up. The myth that spinach is high in iron. It comes from a simple data quality mistake - the recording of a number with the decimal point in the wrong place. It gave spinach the reputation of having 10 times more iron then any other green leafy vegetable....
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