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Weatherman to Menino: Your math sucks
By adamg on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:57pm
You can only push the weatherpeople so far. Sure, they were apologizing last week, but enough's enough. When Mayor Menino complains TV meteorologists make big bucks for only being right "25% of the time," that's just going too far, at least for Channel 25 weatherman A.J. Burnett.
Burnett tweets his team correctly called seven of the last eight "sizable storms," which by his calculation is 87.5% correct - so much for Mayor Menino's "fuzzy math." Besides, he adds, that's a batting average of .875:
Ted Williams life time was .344 – he's in the HOF and preserved?!
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ted williams preserved?
his head is stuck on an empty tuna fish can.
Let's take a more serious look
Granted, this is 2 years old and from Kansas City, where their weathermen may be total boobs compared to AJ Burnett (but I doubt it)...but here's what a study of weathermen in the Freakonomics column in the NYT of April 2008 had to say.
I don't know what "called 7 of 8 sizable storms right" means (did Burnett just get the total precip right? the fact that it would rain/snow at all right?)...but if it's just the fact that it rained, according to the article it only rains more than 0.1 inches about 14% of the days of a year anyways...so you could say "it's not going to rain today" and be right about 86% of the time anyways (according to the column).
Meeting of the "minds"
Burnett and Menino: Tied for last in "Beantown's most likeable public figure."