Sunday, June 14, 2009

Math Illiteracy

"The Progressive Caucus would prefer a single-payer system -- 99.9 percent of the 80 members have said they would vote for a single-payer system" from this article

This is ridiculous.  It is impossible to get 99.9% of 80 people.  If all 80 members vote for something, than the percentage is 100%.  If one of the members objected, then the support percentage would be 98.75%  Clearly math has no meaning to these people.  They must have thrown around that number just because they thought it sounded impressive.

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