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If Earth were perfectly smooth, it would be covered everywhere with water to a depth of four kilometers.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
In one particularly egregious example, a student spent three years in ninth grade and then was promoted straight to eleventh grade—a deviously clever way of keeping a weak student from taking a tenth-grade benchmark exam without forcing him to drop out (which would have showed up on a different statistic).
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
In General Electric’s annual report from 1953, the company bragged about how much it paid in taxes and how much it was spending on payroll. It explicitly said that “maximizing employment security is a prime company goal.” The founder of Johnson & Johnson said that the company’s responsibility to its employees was higher than its responsibility to its shareholders. Corporations then had a radically different conception of their role in society compared with corporations today.
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
newyorker.com
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