Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Maths fail

At the end of Sinclair Davidson's latest post about how happy he is that he's causing the ABC "trouble" (the sort of trouble that is causing Turnbull and every other Coalition minister to grind their teeth at the vote losing potential of this issue), he notes:
So that is ($1,000,000,000/6000) $166,666,67 per job.
Should I go the full snark and end with something like "so that's the standard of RMIT economics teaching?", or just admit it's a typo of a comma that should be a full stop?  

Labor must be delighted at Davidson and Berg's almost single handed contribution (not counting Murdoch) to their next scare campaign. 
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2 comments:

  1. Jason Soon3:06 pm

    totally unrelated steve but what do you think of this?
    I think of it as Scientific American goes Phillip K Dick
    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything/

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  2. Steve8:18 pm

    It's pretty underwhelming, I reckon. I was expecting something that was going to go more to quantum mysteries - like a DID sufferer having one personality in another part (or observing a different part) of the Many Worlds multiverse. That would be a bit more Phillip K Dick-ish.

    I don't even really get the problem - why shouldn't separate conglomerations of mini-consciousness think they are separate from, and have their own character that came out of, the universal consciousness?

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