Rex Kerr
Aug 11, 2022

I am concerned that with wildly wrong numbers you can only engage in wildly wrong thinking unless you ignore the numbers when doing your thinking.

For instance, if I think that the United States is 80 miles wide, I might make some very bad decisions about transportation between New York and Los Angeles.

If I think my salary is $10,000 per hour when it's actually in some normal salary range, I might make some very bad financial decisions.

If I think that 97% of people actually vote Republican, I might have a totally off-base idea about electoral fraud.

The numbers you've listed have errors of this scale in them.

Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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