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Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England

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Re: Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England

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> has shown they are rare or absent in two out of five fields The title presumably should say 40%

Or is it 1 out of 5 fields? Big difference!

And somehow the article has numbers to support both interpretations?

Re: Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England

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Without more context the study is not very useful pesticides, copper levels, phreatic level, number and species of hammerhead flatworms...

Your comment really shocked me,

Then I realized that I'd misread worms as women in the title.

Re: Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England

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Without more context the study is not very useful pesticides, copper levels, phreatic level, number and species of hammerhead flatworms...

Those questions are exactly why a study like this is useful - we didn't know there was a problem, now we can ask the questions to find out what's going on.

Re: Major survey finds worms are rare or absent in 20% of fields in England

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> has shown they are rare or absent in two out of five fields The title presumably should say 40%

Or is it 1 out of 5 fields? Big difference!

I think the 40% number is correct, the article also contains this line which is oddly specific to be a typo.

> However, 42% of fields had poor earthworm biodiversity – meaning either very few or none of the surface-dwelling and deep-burrowing categorisations of worms were seen.

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