Posts Tagged: it’s math!
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Shouting Into The Internet Void Is Pretty Much That

"[A]ccording to the Congressional Management Foundation, the House of Representatives got 99,053,399 messages via the Internet in 2004. That's 227,708.9 messages per member of Congress. If a member took an average of 30 seconds to thoughtfully read each email they received in 2004, it'd take them 79 days solely to read their mail from the Internet. For a member of the Senate it's worse: 288 straight 24-hour days worth of constituent communications at 30 seconds a piece. Most people don't spend that many hours awake in a year." —In which Math helps persuade us into believing even more firmly that online petitions don't really do much in the way [...]

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Associated Press Leads Brave Crusade Against Menus With Too Many Numbers On Them

Is there too much information on menus at fast-food chains and casual-dining restaurants, which are thanks to various government additions evermore laden with calorie counts and sodium counts and fat gram numbers and math and even more math? Maybe, given that the information presented might not always provide the full picture, thus lulling one into a false state of security about, say, a 545-calorie entree that is loaded with enough salt to preserve a full side of pork. Or maybe not, since: "People who order Burger King's Triple Whopper with Cheese (1,250 calories) or Taco Bell's Volcano Nachos (1,000 calories) probably understand that it is not health food"! Somehow [...]

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You're Wasting Your Money On Subscription Personal-Ad Sites, Says Guy Who Just Happens To Work For Free Personal-Ad Site

The stats-obsessed romantics who break down the calculus of love at OkCupid are claiming that anyone who's looking for love on its competitors — Match and eHarmony, specifically — is wasting their money and their time (which is money, you know!) by hunting around for potential partners there. All this through the power of math!