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99.9% success rate

A funny list, with a valid perspective on why 99.9% isn't enough ...

You often hear people say that they have a “99.9% success rate”. Well, if that is acceptable, then:

12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year.
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour.
2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year.
2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers.
Two planes landed at Chicago’s O’Hare airport will be unsafe every day.
315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year.
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips.
103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year.
5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat.
291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly.
3056 copies of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections
A typical day would be 24 hours long (give or take 86.4 seconds).

Posted by Tom Raymond, aka Raynbow on 11/22 at 04:28 PM