CNN Embarrasses Itself Again: Silly Math Error in Graphic in Segment on Mueller Report Redactions

[mikegriffith1]

Oh my heavens, this is hilarious and typical of the slipshod journalism at CNN. A graphic used two days ago during a CNN fake news segment on the redactions in the Mueller report contained an astonishing math error that even most sixth graders would have recognized as wrong. If you have a kid in the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade, go get them ask them to just ballpark what percentage 36 is of 448. They should be able to tell you right off the bat that it must be under 10%, since 10% of 448 is 44.8. Well, the crew at CNN apparently did not have anyone on hand capable of doing this sort of basic math, since no one spotted the error in this caption on the graphic:

12.43% of report is redacted (36 pages worth out of 448)​

Now, never mind that the word "pages" should be in possessive form ("pages' worth"). How could anyone who knows basic math think that 36 is 12.43% of 448, or, putting it another way, that 12.43% of 448 is 36?! If 10% of 448 is 44.8, there is no way that 36 is 12.43% of 448! Sheesh, are you kidding me?

CNN Can't Do The Mueller Report Math

 

[Maxdeath]

They are too busy inventing news items, taking things out of context and talking about outrageously stupid things to worry about simple math.

 

[Jolly Roger]

Similar to when Fox News gave the wrong poll numbers on Trump's approval ratings. Did you make a big deal about how newscasters should be able to read simple numbers? They all make mistakes. It's funny how people seem to not notice the mistakes made by their own side. It's called partisan blindness.

 

[The Professor]

They are too busy inventing news items, taking things out of context and talking about outrageously stupid things to worry about simple math.

Those on the far left are genuinely stupid. The stuff they come up with is truly laughable. This is one my favorites:

“One of the biggest problems that we have is 200 million Americans make less than $20,000 a year. That’s 40 percent of this country," Cortez claimed.

"How can we have an economy that grows, how can we build wealth as an economy, if a large plurality of Americans are too poor to participate in it?” she demanded - just before pushing for the socialist's dream of mass wealth redistribution and higher minimum wages.

WRONG: Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Claims '200 Million Americans Make Less Than $20K a Year'

The math-challenged lady didn't realize that if 200 million low-income wage earners constitutes 40 percent of this country's population, the total population must be more than 500 million (500 million times forty percent equals 200 million). That 500 million would only include adults since even the intellectually handicapped Cortez would not count babies and toddlers among those making less than $20,000 a year. According to her, the population of the U.S., counting children, would be somewhere around 700 million to 800 million However the total total population of the United States, including men woman and children, is only around 325 million.

She is supposedly a college graduate with a degree in economics. A person of average intelligence without a degree does not need a calculator to instantly know that the numbers she came up with didn't make sense. She is by far the most ignorant person ever elected to national office and one of the most uninformed, ignorant individuals in the general population. She is a total airhead. Liberals: behold your queen.

Cortez's mental status goes way beyond mere ignorance. She is a bona fide, board certified, loony tunes wacko. The left whose favorite strategy is to call conservatives stupid has embraced an absolute airhead as the symbol and future of their party. Whodathunkit? Somewhere Sarah Palin is chomping down on a grizzly burger and saying, “And they called ME stupid.”

 

[Maxdeath]

They are too busy inventing news items, taking things out of context and talking about outrageously stupid things to worry about simple math.

Those on the far left are genuinely stupid. The stuff they come up with is truly laughable. This is one my favorites:

“One of the biggest problems that we have is 200 million Americans make less than $20,000 a year. That’s 40 percent of this country," Cortez claimed.

"How can we have an economy that grows, how can we build wealth as an economy, if a large plurality of Americans are too poor to participate in it?” she demanded - just before pushing for the socialist's dream of mass wealth redistribution and higher minimum wages.

WRONG: Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Claims '200 Million Americans Make Less Than $20K a Year'

The math-challenged lady didn't realize that if 200 million low-income wage earners constitutes 40 percent of this country's population, the total population must be more than 500 million (500 million times forty percent equals 200 million). That 500 million would only include adults since even the intellectually handicapped Cortez would not count babies and toddlers among those making less than $20,000 a year. According to her, the population of the U.S., counting children, would be somewhere around 700 million to 800 million However the total total population of the United States, including men woman and children, is only around 325 million.

She is supposedly a college graduate with a degree in economics. A person of average intelligence without a degree does not need a calculator to instantly know that the numbers she came up with didn't make sense. She is by far the most ignorant person ever elected to national office and one of the most uninformed, ignorant individuals in the general population. She is a total airhead. Liberals: behold your queen.

Cortez's mental status goes way beyond mere ignorance. She is a bona fide, board certified, loony tunes wacko. The left whose favorite strategy is to call conservatives stupid has embraced an absolute airhead as the symbol and future of their party. Whodathunkit? Somewhere Sarah Palin is chomping down on a grizzly burger and saying, “And they called ME stupid.”

I have always called her and others like her undereducated. They may have an education even a Ph.D. But they lack the understanding of what they learned and are missing the common sense to even pour water out of a cup without an instructional video.

 

[22lcidw]

Similar to when Fox News gave the wrong poll numbers on Trump's approval ratings. Did you make a big deal about how newscasters should be able to read simple numbers? They all make mistakes. It's funny how people seem to not notice the mistakes made by their own side. It's called partisan blindness.

Its just that the Prog TV stations are a hundred times more blind.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Similar to when Fox News gave the wrong poll numbers on Trump's approval ratings. Did you make a big deal about how newscasters should be able to read simple numbers? They all make mistakes. It's funny how people seem to not notice the mistakes made by their own side. It's called partisan blindness.

Oh, come on. You surely know that's not the same thing. It's one thing to misread a teleprompter--Obama misread teleprompters on several occasions. It's another thing to write text for a graphic and to include a math error that most sixth graders would not make, not to mention that no one else at CNN apparently noticed the error, because the graphic stayed up.

 

[Norman]

I would never like to see what happened if CNN journalist attempted math, reason, logic or facts. It was not meant to be.

 

[Crepitus]

Oh my heavens, this is hilarious and typical of the slipshod journalism at CNN. A graphic used two days ago during a CNN fake news segment on the redactions in the Mueller report contained an astonishing math error that even most sixth graders would have recognized as wrong. If you have a kid in the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade, go get them ask them to just ballpark what percentage 36 is of 448. They should be able to tell you right off the bat that it must be under 10%, since 10% of 448 is 44.8. Well, the crew at CNN apparently did not have anyone on hand capable of doing this sort of basic math, since no one spotted the error in this caption on the graphic:

12.43% of report is redacted (36 pages worth out of 448)​

Now, never mind that the word "pages" should be in possessive form ("pages' worth"). How could anyone who knows basic math think that 36 is 12.43% of 448, or, putting it another way, that 12.43% of 448 is 36?! If 10% of 448 is 44.8, there is no way that 36 is 12.43% of 448! Sheesh, are you kidding me?

CNN Can't Do The Mueller Report Math

I wonder of that saw airtime in all three Mexican countries?