[ExI] significant figures

[William Flynn Wallace]

If STEM people got together, they could stop anything from functioning.
But they take their orders from elected, corrupt fools who keep getting
elected despite the peoples' disgust with them.  Side question:  are there
any engineers in Congress?  In the California legislature?  Doctors and
lawyers, yes.  STEM people, not so much.  bill w

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:20 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>> >… has lied 16,241 times in the 3 years …
>>
>>
>>
>> *> News people often mix numbers having several significant digits to a
>> subjective category. *
>>
>
> They didn't just pull that number out of the air, every single one of
> those 16,241 utterances can be specified, the only subjective part is in
> deciding whether to call them "lies" or to use a euphemism like "misleading
> statement".
>
> > *It is analogous to saying “In the northern hemisphere it is cold
>> 37.641 percent of the time.” *
>>
>
> Misleading statements like "My opponent in this election Spike Jones has
> said the northern hemisphere it is cold 37.641 percent of the time and I
> have the quote to prove it!". Some would argue that wouldn't exactly be a
> lie but.. well.. it wouldn't exactly demonstrate a strong urge to get at
> the truth either.
>
> John K Clark
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