This is actually a super fascinating example of the way data can be displayed in a technically correct way to lead the viewer to completely invalid conclusions.
Fever is not 100F. A fever is defined as 100.4F. Why 100.4 when 100 is a much easier to remember and handle number? Because fever is defined in humans as 38C, and that converts to 100.4F.
Saturday Night Live actually had a good sketch about this a few weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
Washington: "We fight for a nation where we choose our own laws… choose our own leaders… and choose our own systems of weights and measures.
I dream that one day, our proud nation will measure weights in pounds, and that 2000 pounds shall be called a ton."
Rebel: “And what will 1000 pounds be called sir?”
Washington: “Nothing. Cause will have no word for that.”
…
Washington: “Distance will be measured in inches, feet, yards and miles. 12 inches to a foot!”
Rebel: “12 feet to a yard…”
Washington: “If only it were so simple. 3 feet to a yard.”
Rebel: “And how many yards to a mile?”
Washington: “Nobody knows.”
Rebel: “Ok, how many feet to a mile?”
Washington: “5280, of course! It’s a simple number that everyone will remember.”
“Inches in 8.33 feet”
“Mm in a foot”
Fool, the scientist in me is infuriated. Good work, mate!
USA’s measurment system dosn’t make any senses.
Shut up. If you don’t know how many buckets there are to a hogshead, that’s not our fault.
It’s not even our system. We adopted the system of our oppressors that kept it long after they abandoned it.
Imperial is not American, some might call it unAmerican
