{"id":986,"date":"2017-03-13T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=986"},"modified":"2017-03-13T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T18:12:14","slug":"alternative-facts-maths-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Facts: Maths Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Fact: From Mick Mulvaney<em> (<\/em>Director of the\u00a0Office of Management and Budget) on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2017\/03\/12\/sotu-full-mulvaney-interview.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you could have a long conversation, when you have got a numerator and a denominator, how to arrive at a percentage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Real Fact:\u00a0When you have a numerator (call it X) and a denominator (call it Y), you arrive at a percentage using the formula:<\/p>\n<p>( (X\/Y) * 100) %<\/p>\n<p>If this involves a *long conversation*, either you are teaching someone a new concept or they are screwing with you (let&#8217;s debate the pros and cons of Excel, long division on paper, the calculator on my phone).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Fact: From Mick Mulvaney (Director of the\u00a0Office of Management and Budget) on\u00a0CNN: &#8220;But you could have a long conversation, when you have got a numerator and a denominator, how to arrive at a percentage.&#8221; Real Fact:\u00a0When you have a numerator (call it X) and a denominator (call it Y), you arrive at a percentage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-politics","tag-alternativefact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}