<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.” 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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