Comment by rayiner

Journalists are, on average, shockingly innumerate. Here is Brian Williams (famous anchor) and Mara Gay (NYT Editorial Board member) thinking that $500 million is enough to give all 327 million people in America $1 million: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/msnbc-bloo....

Note that this was pre-planned. They had a little graphic overlay prepared for this and everything. Probably a dozen people laid eyes on this and they didn't catch it. If you're a functioning human, your gut-level understanding of the world should have caught this. It would be like reporting that the weather in phoenix this weekend will be 327 degrees F.

It reminds me of my dad's story of watching about the moon landing on TV from Bangladesh. The guy next to him said he didn't believe it, because "how did they break through the dome of the sky?" That's what American reporters are like with statistics and economics.