Posted on 05/27/2006 5:12:45 AM PDT by RobFromGa
And the Oppression of our Supreme Overlords shall continue
Memorial Day weekend ping...
I'm in! In before the zot.
Welcome. This is a no zot zone.
It fell 200%? You mean it sold negative copies?
I'm using FairTax math, it dropped 200% from #7 to #14-- and 14/7 = 200%
And good riddance.
Since Nov 24, 2000
Don't think he's zot material on something like this.
He he pretty good! Boortz the dufus doesn't need to be out front in tax reform IMO.
But your numbers are wacky. A drop from 7 to 14 is
-a drop of 7
-a 50% drop inclusive
-a 100% drop exclusive
note that all three methods of expressing the drop describe an equivalent drop....
So did he tick you off when you called him? Or were you already upset?
As a mathematician, your use of percentages with ordinal numbers offends me. If I am ranked #2, and you are ranked #1, it does not imply that I am two times worse than you are, or that you are 50% better.
A move from 7 to 14 is a 100% move, not a 200% move (14 - 7)/7 = 1 or 100%. But of course, you can't do that with ordinal numbers because the fact that Boortz is now at 14 does not mean his sales or his books popularity have fallen 100%.
I'm using the rarely seen but equivalent "reciprocal inclusive" calculation.
I support the fair tax...what's all the outrage about in this thread?
Yeah, Rob's math is pretty messed up...which destroys his whole article as he's claiming Boortz is wrong about the book's meteroric rise. So can I believe Rob if his math is so wrong?
I'm no fan of boortz as you know. But "reciprocal inclusive" calculation? No such animal. Maybe variation or correlation...
How about just correcting your numbers?
I remember when lewislynn was saying this in 1998.
Still not correct. If he had a 100% drop in sales that would be zero book sales.
When your sales are rising you can have greater than 100% sales, but on the way down you can't go above 100% and the only way to hit 100% drop in sales would be to hit zero sales.
I gave all the background numbers I used to come up with my calculations, and links to the supporting data.
Why shouldn't I be able to use percentages any way I want to make my case better and to try and make something appear worse or better than it is?
It's interesting that the emotional myopia sufferred by Rob directs him to behave in ways that promote the nrst.
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