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Newsy Numbers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the math-is-a-wonderful-thing dept.

EriDay writes "The Wall Street Journal has a new feature called The Numbers Guy about "the way numbers and statistics are used - and abused - in the news, business and politics". The first installment lets us know that somewhere between 0 and 1 Billion (or more) people will be killed by Asian bird flu."

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  1. Re:So... by Tackhead · · Score: -1, Troll
    > > The first installment lets us know that somewhere between 0 and 1 Billion (or more)
    >
    >Excellent, it's nice to know that a negative number of people won't die.

    Well, if you'd been paying attention, the Tsunami was caused by global warming.

    Since 1900, temperatures have risen by 1 degree.

    That means it's either less than 1% hotter, or more than 4% hotter, depending on whether you use Fahrenheit or Celsius. (Those of us who use Kelvins aren't worried.)

  2. Re:My personal favorite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HAHHAHA

    he forgot to say Acres

    HAHAHAHAH yeah that guys a total dummieeee!!! hahahaha

    We should have elected Kerry because the liberals like he and Dan Rather are BASTIONS OF THE TRUTH.