kolmapäev, jaanuar 25, 2006

With such a poor education, their living conditions shouldn't come as a surprise...

I was reading some news from South America, and although the final message is nice and stuff, soon after I started reading I saw two blatant math mistakes that made convinced me it was a waste of time to keep on reading:

First, the writer was trying to express the dramatic change in the life of these ladies who have engaged in coffee bean production.  He (or she?) said that "their lives have taken a 360 degree turn" so now a days blah blah blah...

A few lines further down, s/he added that these ladies used to produce 750 units of whatever weight meassure they use there.  But in one year they increased their production by 400%, and so they reached 3000 of the same measuring unit!!!

I wonder how many more wonders I would've found had I continued reading the other two thirds of the article.