Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 January 2008

It just doesn't add up, well subtract anyway...

On the face of it, if you can trust their figures at all, the Tories have a point about the deactivated gun laws that are proposed. If reactivated guns are only responsible for 0.04% of crime then going after them is putting a small elastic plaster on a decapitation injury. However as since don't seem to be able to subtract 0.04 from 100 I am not sure how we should take their point.
Of course points are also deducted from every media outlet that hasn't spotted the error.