Definition What does 99.9% really mean

CarolX

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#1
I thought it might be fun to start a list of all those numbers like this


If 99.9% Were Good Enough, then...


Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.


811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes

1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.

12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.

268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.

14,208 defective PCs will be shipped this year.

103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.

2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover.

5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire.

Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.

3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.

18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.

291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.

880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holder information on their magnetic strips.

$9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.

55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12 months.

20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.

$761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and CDs that won't play.

107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.

315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled.

 
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CarolX said:

Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.

12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.

268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.

103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.

Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.

291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.

20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.

107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.

Sadly, these are more true than not.
 

Marc

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#3
The numbers in the list don't mean much unless totals are given. E.g.: "1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute." The question is out of how many calls total every minute.
 

Tim Folkerts

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#4
Marc said:
The numbers in the list don't mean much unless totals are given. E.g.: "1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute." The question is out of how many calls total every minute.
Presumably all the numbers given are approximately 0.1% of the appropriate totals, so multiply by 1000 to get the totals.

E.g. "1,314 phone calls will be misplaced every minute" implies 1,314,000 calls are made every minute.


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