Talk Normal by Tim Phillips

Author:Tim Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

where D is how depressed I will feel

ci is the number of column inches given to article ai where i = 1, 2, 3, …

E is the number of times they mention that stupid equation

and δ is the number of days that this story lasts.

If you want to use my formula in a meaningless and generic story about how bloggers get sad once a year when they read press releases about Blue Monday, please quote me as ‘Dr Tim Phillips, an expert in disappointment at the Polytechnic of Cynicism’. Worse than nothing.

Made-up equations are the closest that many journalists get to anything with statistics in it. This, too, has consequences for our ability to understand what’s going on in the world around us (Figure 3.3).

Figure 3.3 The consequences of made-up equations for understanding the world

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