Funny Math Fact Check: de Blasio vs. Uber(iquantny.tumblr.com)
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Funny Math Fact Check: de Blasio vs. Uber
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Could still be true if 2000 new for-hire vehicles are being added every month, and 1000 old for-hire vehicles are removed.
Net change, an increase of 1000 per month.
Not saying this is what's happening, just pointing out that there may be an explanation.
Net change, an increase of 1000 per month.
Not saying this is what's happening, just pointing out that there may be an explanation.
He wrote it as cars being added to the streets.
This argument assumes (with no justification) that the cars have been added at a constant rate. But if they were being added at an increasing rate, there might have indeed been 2000 cars a month added over the last two or three months (with less than a thousand added in previous months), and the mayor may have been citing the most recent statistics rather than a yearly average. Without more reliable data, there's no way to know which is true.