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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Become a street vendor and start arguing for that degree of rounding. See how it goes.

      4 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      If I do not have access to a measurement tool with the degree of precision I want, and I am forced to compromise based on estimates (a common outcome in street vending, depending on the street), there are many situations where the 2+2 = 5 result is the fairer one

      34 replies 2 retweets 67 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      You get that, right Do you understand I'm talking about a completely commonsense, real-life problem here That there are plenty of situations where dogmatically saying 2+2 = 4 is a way for me to cheat you

      5 replies 2 retweets 67 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      The more general way to phrase what I'm talking about is "Weigh them all together" If the scale has a fudge factor then adding up separate results from it will make it worse But the "2+2=5" idea is absolutely an accurate way of describing it

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      (This came up on Square One TV when I was a kid Months typically have four seven-day weeks, plus a few days extra It is very tempting to round down and just say "one month = four weeks" But if you do that for the whole year, you've cheated someone out of 4 weeks out of 52)

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      (That particular example, even though you'd think it's a fucking obvious one, is one that's been used to fuck over uneducated people in the wild before Hence you always count the number of weeks in a year by dividing 365 / 7 = 52 plus a day, not by adding up the months)

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    8. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @XFitNYC @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Deep down he actually knows this and, much like some folks on Wall Street playing with rounding, he’s doing it with an agenda.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @XFitNYC @perdricof

      There is no Wall Street scandal that resulted from people rounding numbers up instead of down, you don't understand what you're talking about and are not qualified to discuss it

      2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
    10. chatham harrison dba SENATUS DELENDUS EST‏ @chathamharrison 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 and

      Even if there were, I struggle to understand how an example of people playing fast and loose with math would be an argument against your point that math readily accommodates loose and fast play, and is not some perfect edifice of Platonic truth (do I misunderstand?)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @chathamharrison @Aya62335284 and

      Yes, someone naively believing an aphorism like "Numbers don't lie" is making themselves more vulnerable to being cheated, not less It would be trivially easy to construct a scam that guys like this could never detect because "All the math checks out"

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        2. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @chathamharrison and

          There's even "lies, damned lies, and statistics"

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        3. chatham harrison dba SENATUS DELENDUS EST‏ @chathamharrison 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @LizardOrman @arthur_affect and

          If there's anyone who can tell you that, it's a statistician. Figuring out how to make numbers not only add up, but actually say something useful, is their entire job.

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        1.  🛼 Komrad Iron  🛼#Fe-26 🛼  🛼  🛼‏ @Komrad_Iron 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @chathamharrison and

          We had a temp accountant trying to square the books after a $1B campaign with millions of donations. The books were off by $400. She hounded us for all receipts looking for the $400. She could not understand that normal data entry errors would mean about a $10,000 discrepancy.

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        1. JLP‏ @jlp802 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @chathamharrison and

          Like Enron.

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