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I've always wondered how often reporters, writers and others in media bother to check facts given to them by often hardly-disinterested parties. Yet more evidence that the answer is "hardly ever."
To be fair, I can see how the initial error here could have been an honest mistake. The problem seems to be that once it was made, a long line of people never bothered to "show their work" because the data just sounded so good (or too bad, depending on how you look at it).
To be fair, I can see how the initial error here could have been an honest mistake. The problem seems to be that once it was made, a long line of people never bothered to "show their work" because the data just sounded so good (or too bad, depending on how you look at it).