Furthermore, if somebody said 'Bill Gates is very rich - therefore all Americans are rich,' which is the rough plain-text equivalent of what these bozos in Svenskt Näringsliv did with their numbers, I am fairly confident that not only most newsies, but the majority of the general population would notice. And yes, their treatment is actually that bad.
Perhaps it is because there is less of a soft middle road with numbers - to some extend, you either get it or you don't. With text, OTOH, there's the middle road, where you know what it says but not what it means.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
