Randall Munroe nails the AIG furor


I hadn’t thought about it, but he’s right; whatever we know rationally, when we stop to think about it, the actual digits we see in the two numbers are very similar, and that has a subliminal effect.Also (and for those who might be skeptical about this), the mouseover on this one is classic:  “And 0.002 dollars will NEVER equal 0.002 cents.”

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