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Keith Parsons's avatar

Donald Trump says that he reduced the cost of something by 1500%. That means that if it cost $10, it is now free and they pay you $140 to take it.

Konrad Hayashi's avatar

Great exposition on mean, median, mode. A modest proposal to lessen skewing of income and wealth data in the US; provide amended charts showing income & wealth mean - median - mode when exclude the bottom 2 million and top 2 million households. 🕊️

Lev Raphael's avatar

Numbers have never been my friend and only last year I discovered I have what's called dyscalculia, a form of dyslexia that can give you various kinds of issues. For me it's coping with excel spread sheets and arithmetic in my head--but the flip side is people with this neurodivergence are good with words, art, music. It explains why my voice teacher tells me I have super "audiation." I cannot read music well, but I can sing whatever he plays.

Ed Buckner's avatar

I'd trade ya, I think. But in any case, we all have to cope with numbers all the time, hate 'em or love 'em.