Verizon Math Fail
By Barry Ritholtz - February 6th, 2009, 8:15PM
Hysterical!
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I guess that’s were CFOs come from
February 6th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
I see this in grocery stores OFTEN
The price is ‘.89 cents per pound’ but we all know it’s really $.89 per pound.
So how did this turn out?
Did verizon get it’s money in dollars or cents?
February 7th, 2009 at 1:38 am
I remember this when it transpired. This whole thing got me soooo mad. I don’t know why, but it just infuriates me to listen to him try to talk cents … uh … sense, and it’s just .. not .. getting .. thru.
Here’s the original victim:
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html
And the best comment:
http://xkcd.com/verizon/
February 7th, 2009 at 3:19 am
When policy trumps reality
They could only see what they were told(brainwashed) to see. It shows the fatal flaw in our ‘hired to do, not to think’ corporate structures
Or to put it another way, that is the mind of bureaucracy in action
February 7th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Brawndo: it’s what plants crave!
February 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Americans are really bad at numbers and especially their conversion. We blew up the Challenger (along with all astronauts on board), because of a mathematical error in calculations that involved conversion to/from metric system, IIRC. :-(
February 7th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Each one of you probably never realized that the RPM gauge is off on most automobiles. It registers 0-12 on the gage and the note below is usually x RPM. That is incorrect. RPM/1000 is what is displayed not x RPM. A reading of 4 represents (4000 RPM)/1000. Volkswagen has is different but I think they are wrong too.
February 8th, 2009 at 1:32 am
RPM gauge = tachometer.
4 x RPM x 1000 = 4000 RPM
ElvisP = Dumbass x 2
February 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Wow Gabriel, you’re almost as bad with facts as the Verizon people are with maths. The Challenger explosion occurred because of low temperatures comprising the structural integrity of the solid rocket boosters because of a design issue involving the O-rings. Had nothing whatsoever to do with conversion of units. You’re thinking of one of the unmanned Mars missions, Mars climate orbiter.
February 13th, 2009 at 12:34 am
what kind of car have you got Elvis, with a tachometer that registers 0 – 12 thousand RPM ?