The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
They Don’t Want Their Math Students to Find Out They Buy Lottery Tickets
“Three Maryland Educators Share in Mega Millions Winnings: Winners identities to remain anonymous”–headline and subheadline, Baltimore Sun, April 10
Eat at Applebee’s
“Cracker Barrel Adopts a New ‘Poison Pill’ “–headline, Associated Press, April 10
Everybody’s Drinking on the Job
“Photo: NASA Spots ‘Elephant’ on Surface of Mars”–headline, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 9
Worst ‘Fact Check’ Yet
OK, maybe this “fact check” business is all just a joke. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler “checks” a Republican National Committee claim about the effects of the Obamaconomy on women. Here’s the conclusion:
We cannot fault the RNC’s math, as the numbers add up. But at this point this figure doesn’t mean very much. It may simply [be] a function of a coincidence of timing–a brief blip that could have little to do with “Obama’s job market.”
If trends hold up over the next few months, then the RNC might have a better case. But at this point we will give this statistic our rarely used label:
TRUE BUT FALSE
Math is hard, but apparently logic is even harder.
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