Saturday, 29 February 2020

The All-Important Decimal


Have you noticed how adding a decimal point after any number can fool us into thinking it's more accurate as a measure of something, whether it be a statistic or a measurement? It may well be that that something which is being measured can't even be measured to within such accuracy, but adding a decimal makes us believe it can - like 73.6% of all statistics are made up...


Just a random thought.


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