An impressive activity count

A fictional local-service report says the office completed 120 files instead of 100 during the preceding comparable period. A draft summary calls this a 120 percent increase and proof that every resident received a better outcome. The underlying packet supplies only the two counts, not the complexity of files, error rate, processing time or residents experiences. A reviewer asks the writer to separate arithmetic, activity and the intended policy effect before submitting the note. These invented counts are a teaching example rather than actual performance data for a public body. No funding decision or claim about staff productivity follows without additional evidence and an appropriate comparison.