I’m always eager about finding math mistakes in the news. The Herald reported that a Traffic Warden was incorrectly ticketing cars in a parking lot because of how he was using his calculator. He failed to realize that calculators work in decimals rather than minutes and hours. One car owner saw this and tried to …
Taking a look at the table in Wikipedia the life expectancy for Canada is indeed a bit higher than that of the USA. Peter Gillies asked this question and Bill O’Reilly answers it perfectly:“Well, that’s to be expected, Peter, because we have ten times as many people as you do. That translates to ten times …
Some of the words were obscured here because the slightly NSFW nature of the subject matter distracts from the Math Fail. Refer to the original source if you’re not squeamish. Thanks to Anon. for this submission! Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/pubic-hair-grooming-injuries_n_2632907.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
Hawaii politician thinks she can divide by 0 Ironically, she tells us to “do the math”. Thanks to Bradford Blue for this submission! Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt3eMSCq9zY
Thanks to The Very Reverend Thomas Bayes for this submission!
Check out this silly news article about a poll that was taken to see if people believe the world is going to end in 2012! AAaaackk!! The title of the article is: Almost 10% of Canadians believe Mayan end-of-the-world prediction Followed by the first sentence “Nine per cent of Canadians believe that the Mayan calendar, …
Thanks to yongoro for this math fail in the news: On Thursday’s Hardball, Chris Matthews preposterously insisted that Barack Obama added “only 13 people” to the federal workforce in 2009 and that the total number of individuals working for the U.S. government (as of 2010) was 4,443. According to the Office of Personnel Management (the …
Journalism and math don’t mix
Good luck backing up that argument.
In other news, the day after tomorrow is the end of life as we know it.