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From the article: “24 million babies will someday be President.” This seems an improbable claim. Is he saying something sensible by virtue of the surrounding an
by putzdown 3y ago
From the article: “24 million babies will someday be President.” This seems an improbable claim. Is he saying something sensible by virtue of the surrounding analysis that I’m just not following?
- throw_pm23 3y agoThe parsing is ambiguous, read it with parentheses as follows: 1 in (6 times 4.0 million = 24 million) babies will someday be President
- lindenr 3y agoYeah, I think it's a typo and should have been "one in every 24 million babies" - this makes sense given the numbers, with 4 million born every year but only a new president every 6 years.