Comments on: You Look Like A Million Dollars, But What Does A Trillion Look like?

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Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:16:06 +0000

[...] trust my judgment on the ability of the reader to grasp the figures being presented. As I’ve pointed out before, it’s difficult for most people to conceptualize large numbers in a useful way in the first [...]

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» Thanks A Trillion, Frank - Dissociated Press — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:07:58 +0000

[...] as in the graphic at left, which was assembled from the larger images here. We explored this in more detail last year. You can also do what politicians do, and talk about the numbers in ways that sound good [...]

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» Infoporn & Data Addiction - Dissociated Press — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:16:59 +0000

[...] especially partial to the kind that puts incomprehensible things into tidy visual form, like what does a million dollars like? Which is why I especially like What If You Printed the Internet? Economic data is also always more [...]