I Don’t Like These Numbers

I’ve been pok­ing fun at many of the num­ber-goal groups on Face­book for some­time. It’s just seems so com­i­cal to me that there are a huge num­ber of “I bet I can find 1,000,000 peo­ple for/against so-and-so” type groups there. They only get more enter­tain­ing the longer I’m on that site.

It’s so cute that there’s now a FB group which wants to sign up the entire US pop­u­la­tion (they even used an old num­ber; about 3 mil­lion too low as of last year) against our new Health­care Reform law. Nev­er mind that these are the peo­ple who won a demo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tion and did what they said they’d do. Or that cur­rent polls show sup­port for the law solid­ly north of 50%1.

What’s so cute about this? These are many of the same peo­ple who com­plain about the account prob­lems with the law.

  1. Actu­al­ly 49% called it good vs. 40% called it bad, accord­ing to a Gallup Poll report­ed in the Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor. []
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By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

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