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Are fractions really that hard and terrifying?
Because I am sick of reading, "20 times less" when they mean 1/20th.
This is easy math. Try it at home.
20 x 1 = 20. Is 20 more or less than 1?
20 x 20 = 400. Is 400 more or less than 20?
When you multiply it's always MORE not less.
Even if you use smaller numbers.
20 x 0.001 = 0.02. 0.02 is more than 0.001.
It's high time we made journalists take some fucking math classes.
A jolt of English would be good too. Long ago, a cheap tool set came with a fractional vernier caliper. ???
ReplyDeleteIt has always been a problem. When A&W brought out a 1/3 pound burger it did worse than the quarter pounder because 4 is bigger than 3.
ReplyDeleteHow about "it's high time we made people who design boxes take some fucking match classes?" I buy a 2 ounce bottle of almond extract to make ice cream with and it's emblazoned "twice as much as our 1 ounce bottle!" Does anybody really need that? Or maybe we have requirements for numeracy as well as literacy for the entire population? Well, I guess the reading scores in just about all big cities show that's hopeless.
ReplyDeleteMy teeth grind involuntarily whenever they tell you about "a million and a half dollars", and cannot fathom how $1,000,000.50 is not the same thing as $1,500,000.00
ReplyDeleteMy impression when I was in college was that journalism majors were not, to put it bluntly, the intellectual elite.
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