Nice comparisons. The problem is not that people can't handle it, the problem is that people don't think about it. I'm pretty good at math (in comparison to mo

Nice comparisons. The problem is not that people can't handle it, the problem is that people don't think about it. I'm pretty good at math (in comparison to most people here I'm probably terrible but anyway) and I don't really think much about it. It's easy to do the math and come up with comparisons like you did, but you're exposed to so many numbers and so much information that you don't really bother. Thus "Government overruns budget by $10 billion" becomes the same headline as "Government overruns budget by $10 trillion" in my mind whereas the headline "teen has three daughters" is distinctly and instantly different than "teen has fifty daughters"