(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Math On The Internet Edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-30 One of the habits I have to keep myself from losing [what’s left of] my sanity when I’m on social media is never, ever, attempt to correct someone’s mistake in a group post. Yes, on a friend’s post I will occasionally speak up if I know something’s incorrect (looking at you, datamining hoaxes), but in a large group of people I have zero connection to except the group topic, nope. Narrator: She did, in fact, see something wrong on the internet and attempt to correct the misinformation. A while back, I joined a group for fans of a certain warehouse club Casa Brillig frequents regularly. And mostly it’s been fun seeing just how EXCITED people get when they find certain products in stock, or share something new they tried, and all that. The kind of harmless group chatter than relieves the stress that builds up in my brain whenever I watch the news. Yesterday, however, someone posted about how a product they bought regularly was no longer on their list and they were warning everyone of “the scam”. What was this scam, you ask? The Product was a powder, and came in a container along with a Scoop, and the serving size was Two Scoops. However, new batches of The Product no longer had a Scoop (to save plastic! it said the container) and now the serving size was Four Tablespoons. You know where this is going, don’t you? Yeah, but it’s Monday and this is the topic so stick with me :) The original poster was all in a twist because THEY were trying to pull a fast one over on us by “doubling the amount of product you needed to use but charging the same”. Many of you may know that in a past life I was a research scientist, so when I read this I went to my kitchen, pulled out the Product (a batch containing a Scoop) and my kitchen scale. Weight of 2 Scoops product, average of 3 measurements: 18g Weight of 4 Tablespoons product, average of 3 measurements: 16g I went to post this, and only then noticed the original poster had conveniently used photos of BOTH containers’ nutritional info. It will surprise no one reading this that the serving size in BOTH cases, be it 2 Scoops or 4 Tablespoons, was 20g. I did post it. And while a number of people said thank you, or agreed that the serving size had not changed because they could read labels, I was frankly shocked at how many people had their righteous anger on at The Company for cheating people and were exhorting everyone to SAVE YOUR SCOOP!!!!! If I wasn’t exhausted already today, I’d be writing about what this says about 1. How little people know about math; and 2. Why so many issues in society can be traced to people being unable to discern facts and use provided information for their own benefit. I checked just now and the original poster was STILL complaining about the issue and an admin turned off commenting. If you’re so inclined, feel free to share similar stuff you’ve wandered through on the interwebs or in conversations with family or friends, because I know we’ve ALL been there at one time or another. But first, tonight’s Tops! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/30/2150205/-Top-Comments-Math-On-The-Internet-Edition Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/