11.22.2007

Does anybody bother to do the math?

The holiday travel season is upon is (well, not us - you) and lost luggage is the worry du jour. The Chicago Tribune here breathlessly repeats a revelation from yesterday's NYTimes...

But the baggage problem is getting worse. One in every 138 checked bags was lost during the first nine months of this year, compared with one in 155 bags a year earlier, the New York Times reported.

Getting worse, Bunky! It undeniably is! It's up to 0.72 percent! That's your likelihood of losing a bag - three-quarters of one percent. Which sounds, you know, awful, but not so awful I wouldn't check mine.

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