
How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)
Rationally Speaking Podcast
Is That Really a Unit's Error?
Ai was on emison b c and brian williams, the news anchor, was talking to some journalist from the new york times about mike bloomberg's campaign. The tweet that this person had tweeded, you know, mike bloomberg spent 500 millions in his president campaign. Withthat money, he could have given every american one million dollars and still had money left over. They planned this new segment, they took a screen shot and put the tweed up on the air,. And never did it occur to anyone on screen or in production that this makes no sense.
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