Gasp! Hyperbole from a TV pundit? On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
If I hear another TV pundit talk about "exponential" increase in something, when the vast majority of these examples are *polynomial* (usually only quadratic), I'm going to scream.
Today, I heard the following nonsequitur: "Do the math. This {whatever] is increasing exponentially ...".
Well, I did the math, and it was increasing quadratically, at best.
Can we hook an electrode to some lower extremity of each news person/politician to Pavlov them into understanding the true meaning of "exponential" ?
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