Which risk increases when relying on an Inca quipu for annual grain yield data?

💡 Explanation

Knot encoding requires creating and reading each of the knots accurately. A transmission error (encoding error) leads quipu interpreters to assign incorrect numerical values; therefore, agricultural outputs estimates become skewed, rather than irrigation pressures.

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