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Media Innumeracy in One Short Sentence


This morning (August 4) on NPR’s Weekend Edition there was a great example of media innumeracy in one short sentence. The announcer was reporting on the power outages in India.  ”Almost 700 milli0n people — that’s more than half a billion — were without power.”

Sigh.

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