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christinaincorporated: Math is hard. 93% were men and women. The other 7% were???? I thought maybe they quoted some fetuses, but it turns out that the other 7% were “organizations.” They apparently get almost as much say as actual women do. @TheWeek dropped the ball - if you’re only going to provide a portion of the statistics, at least link to the article. Or, you know, retweet @thedailybeast (if they ever tweeted about it) instead of just referring to them and leaving readers to find the tweet among the 84 tweets that appear on the Beast’s timeline for that day alone. And the article itself was from May 31, so good luck scrolling down to find it based on a tweet from June 11 with a vague reference to the source. I only found it by following the trail back from this tumblr post about @TheWeek’s tweet to when Newsweek first posted it on tumblr with a semi-hidden link to the article. Long story short, in the new tradition of American news, @TheWeek made a claim without providing any context. It’s become incumbent on us to do the legwork required to put the pieces together.
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christinaincorporated:

Math is hard. 93% were men and women. The other 7% were????

I thought maybe they quoted some fetuses, but it turns out that the other 7% were “organizations.” They apparently get almost as much say as actual women do.

@TheWeek dropped the ball - if you’re only going to provide a portion of the statistics, at least link to the article. Or, you know, retweet @thedailybeast (if they ever tweeted about it) instead of just referring to them and leaving readers to find the tweet among the 84 tweets that appear on the Beast’s timeline for that day alone.

And the article itself was from May 31, so good luck scrolling down to find it based on a tweet from June 11 with a vague reference to the source. I only found it by following the trail back from this tumblr post about @TheWeek’s tweet to when Newsweek first posted it on tumblr with a semi-hidden link to the article.

Long story short, in the new tradition of American news, @TheWeek made a claim without providing any context. It’s become incumbent on us to do the legwork required to put the pieces together.

(via justblamechris)

Source: newsweek

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