This nugget from The Numbers Guy (sub req) in yesterday's WSJ shows why all those fact-checkers, editors, and gatekeepers are needed:
Michael Ranney, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, says journalism students in his number-training class who should know the U.S. population is 300 million sometimes guess California has one billion people (instead of 36.5 million).
Everything I needed to know I learned in J-school?
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