That article missed Mara Gay's tweet when she realized what she said,
the fact that she thinks she would need a calculator is stunning....
there's a story neil degreasse tyson tells in one of his books that i read a while back about how for some reason it's perfectly acceptable, even in "educated" company, to be math illiterate.
if you were with a group of people and someone wanted you to read something and you said you were never good at reading, they'd look at you like you're an idiot.
why is it accepted with basic math?
Nah, I think that was pretty clearly self-deprecating humor. I think this was something added at the last moment and it just slipped past everyone; one of those brain-fart type things. It is pretty humorous thinking of how many people it would've had to slip past to have the graphic ready, though.
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