The post said that 0.04 percent of the 1990 US population amounted to 1.1 million households. This is mathematically preposterous.
The US population in 1990 was 250,000,000. The figure of 0.04 percent is 1/25 of 1 percent, which is 1/25 of 1/100. Thus, 0.04 percent of the 1990 US population was 1/2500 times 250,000,000—which amounts to 100,000 Americans, not 1.1 million American households.
What was the homeless population in 1990?
Well they made two math mistakes.
1. Decimal point 0.4 instead of 0.04.
0.4% of the U.S. pop in 1990 would be about 1.1 million PEOPLE.
2. They conflated households with people. Which is it: 1.1 million people or 1.1 million households.
In 1990, there were 2.6 persons/household average.
So! Are we talking about 1.1 million ppl, or 2.9 million ppl?
Hard to tell per the article.
Yeah, the media ain’t too good at arithmetic.