<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So why aren't the math people in charge, Spike?  bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:02 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_5600295467812170423WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="font-size:13.5pt"> has lied 16,241 times in the 3 years … <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">News people often mix numbers having several significant digits to a subjective category. It is analogous to saying “In the northern hemisphere it is cold 37.641 percent of the time.â€Â That depends of course on who is being asked if it is cold.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">News people don’t really get this.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Science rules in our world. Math rules reality. The rest of it is just sound and fury.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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