That's part of the clickbait-ness. "Surely the actual article uses real numbers, let me click and see..." Also, this is the problem with current (what gets pas

That's part of the clickbait-ness. "Surely the actual article uses real numbers, let me click and see..." Also, this is the problem with current (what gets passed off as) journalism. The quality of the reporting is replaced with creativity, hyperbole, etc. It's hard to take the profession seriously when it doesn't follow its own rules, doesn't bother to police itself, etc.