This x1000.
msnbc figured if they put him on close to midnight, no one would give a shit.
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MSNBC agrees with math-challenged tweet claiming Bloomberg could have given every American $1m instead of spending $500m on campaign
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msnbc figured if they put him on close to midnight, no one would give a shit.
My bank account indicates that somehow I'm always off by a factor of one million.
If anything it just means people (including myself) forgot basic Multiplication. A simple calculation of 327m x 1m should have been enough to go "ah I see".
This definitely makes for a fun ice breaker, I'm going to try it out with my family lol.
This definitely makes for a fun ice breaker, I'm going to try it out with my family lol.
It's because people see it as 500 instances of a million dollars, not 500 million individual dollars.
The framing can trick your mind for a second. It's not something to be embarrassed about...unless it shows up on national television.
Honestly seeing as an adult human being wrote that tweet I'm going to say adults hate common core because they're mostly innumerate
Don't believe anyone who says that being good at math is "something you're born with." Our innate sense of numbers is hilariously bad at times. There's a really good book about it I wish I could recall right now.
Jesus fuck.
Is it so hard to do
327.000.000 x 1.000.000 = 327.000.000.000.000, or $327 Trillion?
Is there even that much money on Earth?
So, 500,000,000 / 327,000,000 = 1,000,000 ?
Come on, people. This ain't hard.
No, only 327 people would get it as 1,000,000 x 327 = 327,000,000. In order for the math in the tweet to check out, you would need 327,000,000,000,000 or 327 trillion dollars. It's easy to get confused because of how similar the numbers are but it is a very big error to make.
Edit: oop sorry, someome alreday explained it to you. Ridn"t mean to pile on.
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its just a stupid oversight that people are blowing out of proportion. It has more to do with fatigue and the need for immediacy than intelligence.
Seems like most people are just having a good time roasting them.
As a math teacher, I am VERY sad for our future if this sort of math is being considered plausible...
also if that's the case I'll take my million dollar check first please!
also if that's the case I'll take my million dollar check first please!
This was a planned segment on MSNBC. Somehow this was all signed off by Brian Williams, the NYT Editorial Board member, and the entire back of house team at MSNBC including the producer, editors, etc.
It's a complete inability to do basic elementary math, and it somehow made it through at least half a dozen people at MSNBC and into a live broadcast where two people nod and agree at how truthful it is in front of all of their viewers.
It's really quite stunning.
Similar mistake was made some years back IIRC:
www.cnet.com
Can Powerball end poverty? Lottery meme fails to check the math
A photo suggesting the US could end poverty by dividing the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot evenly was widely shared on Facebook, but the math really, really (really) didn't add up.
www.cnet.com
lol holy shit this person is stupid. Or maybe she's just doing it on purpose for attention actually.
Uh huh. "So that's 20 lessons over the semester at $60 each, so you owe me $100,000, upfront."
Wait, I think that is how US colleges work out tuition fees now.
Hahahaha holy shit this gif and Peter's awkward stare is too much 😂
That's not a breakdown, you just made 500 million and 327 million take up more space
I would prefer if 24 hour news channels & social media had went away completely & we'd all go back to the old days before they were ever invented. They've made this country dumber & dumber.
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