Math Is Hard: Obamacare Edition

Yesterday the incredibly fair and balanced Fox News aired this informative graph, which attempted to illustrate the current shortfall in Obamacare enrollment (which is pretty much all they've talked about on air for the past year).

As you can see, they apparently went back in time and hired my twelve year old self to create the chart for them. Only a kid with math skills like mine at that age could have made a chart that shows six million equal to roughly a third of seven million. Fair and balanced indeed!

Whatever your feelings toward Obamacare, you've got to admit that's some twisted math there.

Later in the day they aired a "corrected" version of the chart, accompanied by an apology from Fox anchor Bill Hemmer. Which of course translates to "an intern noticed our chart was being ruthlessly mocked on every blog in the country, and we hurriedly tried to salvage what little credibility we could."

A New Hope

If you're a regular reader of my blog (as millions are) you'll know that I am not a fan of 3D films. 

I will admit that when 3D movies are filmed properly (like Avatar) they can be spectacular. Unfortunately the vast majority of them are shot in plain old 2D and then hastily converted to inferior after-the-fact 3D in post production. 

I hate these post-converted 3D films with a white hot passion and avoid them whenever possible. I don't know anyone who likes them, but Hollywood keeps churning them out because it means they can squeeze and extra three or four dollars from the wallets of each customer and artificially inflate the box office gross.

But at long last there's a small, dim ray of hope.

Chart created by MackieDrew

I saw this handy chart today, detailing the horrifying explosion of unnecessary and unwanted 3D films. Not surprisingly, Avatar appears to have been the catalyst that kicked off the whole sorry trend back in 2009. According to the chart 2011 was a really bad year if you hate 3D. 

But last year looks like it was a little less grim and so far 2013 is looking even better.

Could the detestable 3D fad finally be dying a well-deserved and overdue death? Cheezus, I hope so. I'll be the first in line to giddily dance on its grave.

Worst Paying College Degrees: You Can Probably See Where This Is Going...

Yahoo recently ran an article listing the Top 20 Worst Paying College Degrees. Here's the list below:

Worst-Paying College Degrees in 2010
College Degree	Starting Pay	Mid-Career Pay
1. Child and Family Studies	$29,500	$38,400
2. Elementary Education	$31,600	$44,400
3. Social Work	$31,800	$44,900
4. Athletic Training	$32,800	$45,700
5. Culinary Arts	$35,900	$50,600
6. Horticulture	$35,000	$50,800
7. Paralegal Studies/Law	$35,100	$51,300
8. Theology	$34,700	$51,300
9. Recreation & Leisure	$33,300	$53,200
10. Special Education	$36,000	$53,800
11. Dietetics	$40,400	$54,200
12. Religious Studies	$34,700	$54,400
13. Art	$33,500	$54,800
14. Education	$35,100	$54,900
15. Interdisciplinary Studies	$35,600	$55,700
16. Interior Design	$34,400	$56,600
17. Nutrition	$42,200	$56,700
18. Graphic Design	$35,400	$56,800
19. Music	$36,700	$57,000
20. Art History	$39,400	$57,100

Coming in at #18 is Graphic Design. Hey, that's me! My degree made the list! Hooray! Oh, wait...

This graph would have come in handy back when I was actually in college. Of course back then things may have been different, but somehow I doubt it.

I'm going to have to dispute their "mid-career pay" of $56,800, because I'm sure not seeing any amount like that. I guess I must not have reached my mid-career yet.