Innumeracy

[twig93]

Why? Because people don’t know how to calculate 2024 - 1996?

[joejam]

Twas a joke that according to that meme I have aged considerably

[knoath]

It doesn’t say it was written in 2024. Maybe Facebook of the future has the ability to send messages to the past. More scary is that means Facebook will still be around in 2038.

[twig93]

@knoath

that means Facebook will still be around in 2038

Hmmm, it’s been around for 20 years already although I think it was around 15-16 years ago that it really started to gain traction. Still, 2038 is only 14 years away. So Facebook might be more than halfway through its life span. Although I’m not precisely sure how one measures these things. Technically MySpace is still around.

[Ted_Hoffman]

In the revised timeline, Sarah Connor needs to blow this up before she takes out Skynet, though I might argue they’re one and the same.

[Doctor_Who]

@knoath

More scary is that means Facebook will still be around in 2038.

It is.

:TARDIS:

[knoath]

@knoath

I thought this was innumeracy but it turned out it wasn’t. You do get 5 cartons for the price of 2 -

Sadly, the deal is now Buy 2 Get 2 Free. I still succumbed. They may be trying to soften me to accept the Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal but I think that will be a bridge too far.

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

They forgot the 10% of the time when we feel nothing, or is that 10% not OK?

[Vorian_Atreides]

I find it interesting that the outside is “And that’s okay” . . . implying that the inside part is “NOT ‘and that’s okay’”? I mean this is a Venn Diagram, right?

[Klaymen]

There wasn’t enough room for 33.3333333333% on the graph so they rounded

[knoath]

@Maphistos_Sidekick

One thing Mr. Trump likes about a 16-week federal ban on abortions is that it’s a round number. “Know what I like about 16?” Mr. Trump told one of these people, who was given anonymity to describe a private conversation. “It’s even. It’s four months.”

I would definitely request to be paid a half a month’s salary every two weeks if I was working at a Trump organization (if I was to be paid, that is).

[twig93]

They could have at least rounded to 33% which doesn’t really take any more space than 30%.

[OldTimer]

A very short YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z2por9-ZXAU

[SteveWhite]

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

[Breadmaker]

Mebbe they meant to label it “INCORRECTO”.

[knoath]

They’re going to turn up to the Battle of Hastings 100 years late.

[SteveWhite]

I sure hope this is innumeracy (by them), since I sent a letter to the editor about it

I wrote:

In an April 30 editorial, the Inquirer wrote: “Since Act 12 was approved, mainly two for-profit companies - Pennsylvania American Water and Aqua Pennsylvania - have purchased more than 20 water and sewer systems. In many instances, customers have seen their monthly bills double or triple. Rates increased by 98% in Limerick Township, 90% in New Garden, and 73% in East Norriton.”

Those are significant increases, and perhaps Act 12 should be repealed, but your math is wrong or misleading. None of those increases would cause a bill to double. That would take a 100% increase. To have a bill double, part of the increase is increased usage. To triple, even in Limerick with the highest rate increase, usage would have to increase over 50%.

They won’t print it without confirming that the letter came from me and they have permission to print it, so if I’ve done something stupid I hope you guys will alert me.

[twig93]

A 98% increase is close enough to doubling that I wouldn’t quibble the difference. They certainly provided no justification for the tripling claim though.

[SteveWhite]

@twig93

A 98% increase is close enough to doubling that I wouldn’t quibble the difference.

Agree, but since I was going to challenge the tripling I pointed out it didn’t even double.