![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Math, headlines and you.
May. 13th, 2009 05:02 amThis is something really irks me - Poor math in headlines.
This article's headline isn't the poor math. What was the poor math was the lead-in to the article (i.e. the hyperlink I clicked on to get to it).
"Median home prices fall in nearly 9 out of every 10 U.S. cities"
Does anyone besides me see that as being... well... wrong?
If you're strictly relying on integer comparisons, you can't have "nearly 9". It's either "9 out of 10" or "8 out of 10".
Obviously, I don't have enough to do at work, huh?
This article's headline isn't the poor math. What was the poor math was the lead-in to the article (i.e. the hyperlink I clicked on to get to it).
"Median home prices fall in nearly 9 out of every 10 U.S. cities"
Does anyone besides me see that as being... well... wrong?
If you're strictly relying on integer comparisons, you can't have "nearly 9". It's either "9 out of 10" or "8 out of 10".
Obviously, I don't have enough to do at work, huh?
