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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(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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(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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Deep down he actually knows this and, much like some folks on Wall Street playing with rounding, he’s doing it with an agenda.
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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
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I said nothing about rounding up or down, just rounding. But in fact rounding up has been a problem. And then you speak of qualifications...! Quite the multilayered gaslighting operation you've got going. One quick example for your reference:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/22/sec-investigates-whether-companies-round-up-earnings.html …
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Well that's a fun fact I didn't know, and that I kind of doubt you knew until you googled it just now to own me What of it
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That's a hilarious way to handle this. Wrong again. Now 2 cases of prima facie woke activism 1) Be wrong, call the other person wrong, doubt their qualifieds. 2) Be corrected, doubt again. An incredibly woke project you've got going on, truly a productive social contribution.
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What kind of person says "collecting data" to mean googling free articles to win a Twitter fight
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Replying to @XFitNYC @arthur_affect and
Oh! Asking friends to Google for you. That is much more clever and smart. Good job! I am now very convinced.
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