Even Count Dyscalculia has better math skills than the MSM.
Posted on 03/06/2020 9:55:05 PM PST by grundle
The MSNBC host and the New York Times’ Mara Gay praised a tweet with a startling — and incorrect — claim.
MSNBC’s Brian Williams plus bad math equaled an embarrassing on-air goof Thursday. (See the clip below.)
“The 11th Hour” host gushed over a tweet claiming that Michael Bloomberg could have used the $500 million ad budget on his failed presidential bid to give every American $1 million.
“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Williams declared.
“It’s true,” guest and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay chimed in. “It’s disturbing.”
It was also wrong.
Get your calculators out, America. Here’s the now-deleted tweet from writer Mekita Rivas that Gay brought up and Williams validated:
“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.”
Some quick number-punching reveals that $500 million divided by 327 million equates to a rounded-up $1.53 per person, a bit off from $1 million.
Rivas owned up to the flub, writing, “I know, I’m bad at math,” on a Twitter bio.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
“You would need 327 quadrillion dollars to give everyone in America a million dollars. That’s a lot of dough. I don’t think there’s enough paper and ink to print that up.”
That’s why they invented exponents
Not just those two. They had the graphic prepared so the Producer saw it, the camera persons, the staff and anybody else who was hangin' around and nobody spotted it. What a bunch of dummies.
I’m terribly math illiterate; however I figured that the US population, should we be given a dollar each, that would use up most of Bloomberg’s contribution.
I think they were sexually frustrated to be honest. They sure seemed to hate boys.
Continuing….
However, if you were to subtract from the existing US
population, children under 26, Illegals, and those who are already millionaires, Bloomberg’s millions could be spread more “thickly”.
Cut the guy some slack. Williams was the last guy at The Alamo to get on the last chopper out and then fought off the Nazis at Gettysburg.
Are you trolling or drunk/high?
There was that too. I wonder how many went into the convent as a result of bad experiences with men.
The real problem is the inability to apply critical thinking.
When it’s one of their own, colossal idiocy is called a “goof” or “flub.” If a Republican or other normal person had said it, it would have been “a sign of stupidity,” “a lie,” “a reason for him to resign”.
No calculator is needed. No number punching. This should not even be a problem! No math talent is needed here!
“I know, I’m bad at math,” on a Twitter bio
Then STFU. Your opinions are based on stupidity and ignorance of basic math.
Yet you are pontificating on how billionaires can save everyone just by sharing.
No wonder idiots like Bernie have a following.
The idiocy of Idiots is mind-numbing.......
They still have their jobs? I’m astonished.
It's happened to me before......You study the problem so long that your brain gets frozen and you say the heck with it and give it up. Then later in the morning the answer just pops into your head.
Kinda like trying to remember somebody's last name. I've been trying to remember the name of an old Detroit Tiger baseball player this morning but I just can't get it. I know later it will just pop into my head without even thinking about....
Must be - i remember when Tom Lehrer had a “That Was The Week That Was” (and a “That Was The Year That Was, special) show where he did his ditty songs about things - one was “New Math”....and that must have been close to 50 years ago.
Tom Lehrer – New Math Lyrics:
Some of you who have small children may have perhaps been put in the
embarrassing position of being unable to do your child’s arithmetic homework
because of the current revolution in mathematics teaching known as the New
Math. So as a public service here tonight I thought I would offer a brief
lesson in the New Math. Tonight we’re going to cover subtraction. This is the
first room I’ve worked for a while that didn’t have a blackboard so we will
have to make due with more primitive visual aids, as they say in the “ed biz.”
Consider the following subtraction problem, which I will put up here: 342 -
173.
Now remember how we used to do that. three from two is nine; carry the one, and
if you’re under 35 or went to a private school you say seven from three is six,
but if you’re over 35 and went to a public school you say eight from four is
six; carry the one so we have 169, but in the new approach, as you know, the
important thing is to understand what you’re doing rather than to get the right
answer. Here’s how they do it now.
You can’t take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the tens place.
Now that’s really four tens,
So you make it three tens,
Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
And you add them to the two and get twelve,
And you take away three, that’s nine.
Is that clear?
Now instead of four in the tens place
You’ve got three,
‘Cause you added one,
That is to say, ten, to the two,
But you can’t take seven from three,
So you look in the hundreds place.
From the three you then use one
To make ten ones...
(And you know why four plus minus one
Plus ten is fourteen minus one?
‘Cause addition is commutative, right.)
And so you have thirteen tens,
And you take away seven,
And that leaves five...
Well, six actually.
But the idea is the important thing.
Now go back to the hundreds place,
And you’re left with two.
And you take away one from two,
And that leaves...?
Everybody get one?
Not bad for the first day!
Hooray for new math,
New-hoo-hoo-math,
It won’t do you a bit of good to review math.
It’s so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!
Now that actually is not the answer that I had in mind, because the book that I
got this problem out of wants you to do it in base eight. But don’t panic. Base
eight is just like base ten really - if you’re missing two fingers. Shall we
have a go at it? Hang on.
You can’t take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the eights place.
Now that’s really four eights,
So you make it three eights,
Regroup, and you change an eight to eight ones,
And you add them to the two,
and you get one-two base eight,
Which is ten base ten,
And you take away three, that’s seven. Ok?
Now instead of four in the eights place
You’ve got three,
‘Cause you added one,
That is to say, eight, to the two,
But you can’t take seven from three,
So you look at the sixty-fours.
“Sixty-four? How did sixty-four get into it?” I hear you cry.
Well, sixty-four is eight squared, don’t you see?
(Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.)
From the three you then use one
To make eight ones,
And you add those ones to the three,
And you get one-three base eight,
Or, in other words,
In base ten you have eleven,
And you take away seven,
And seven from eleven is four.
Now go back to the sixty-fours,
And you’re left with two,
And you take away one from two,
And that leaves...?
Now, let’s not always see the same hands.
One, that’s right!
Whoever got one can stay after the show and clean the erasers.
Hooray for new math,
New-hoo-hoo-math,
It won’t do you a bit of good to review math.
It’s so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!
Come back tomorrow night. We’re gonna do fractions.
Now I’ve often thought I’d like to write a mathematics text book someday because I have
a title that I know will sell a million copies. I’m gonna call it Tropic Of
Calculus.
With all due respect, I’m stunned that so many here can’t do simple math.
It’s about $1.53 (nowhere close to a million dollars) for each American, people!
“ Common core math, right?”
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Yeh, that’s not “bad at math.” That’s stupid.
Even Count Dyscalculia has better math skills than the MSM.
The city of Elmira, NY has this idjit’s mug on a welcome sign.
Wish someone would stick a dunce cap on his head.
Mr. “150 million shot dead” Biden should hire these two for his campaign.
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