Why is it that getting 9 out of 10 right on a test  "a 90" is an A, but giving 90% is far from an A level effort?  Nobody ever boasts about giving it their best and says i gave it everything, i gave it 95%!  No we say we gave it 100% or 110% or maybe if we really want to make the point of how important it was, how much effort we gave we say "we gave it 150%".

I've never been able to work with numbers, let alone understand them. And i know tests don't always add up to what it is you know or clearly how much you care, or even the effort put in. Numbers can lie just like people...and given i feel i can read people better than numbers, i tend to think numbers lie more than people. The notion that "numbers don't lie" is a lie!  But i could be wrong (not about that), about people lying more than numbers. Maybe people lying is less black and white than numbers gone bad and it's more about "stretching the truth"- think about all the "guidance" or bailouts of all the companies being "bankrupt" financially or otherwise!

Maybe it's about wiggle room. We as people all need wiggle room. But, we also need to lie a lot less and hold both our numbers accountable, as well as, the people who've been empowered and supposedly know how to count them. And maybe the people who don't think in terms of numbers-just to be helpful, just to be safe, need to learn-like me!