Comments on: Odd bee article - for several reasons http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/odd-bee-article-for-several-reasons/ All Things Green Bay Packers Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: awhayes http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/odd-bee-article-for-several-reasons/#comment-993 awhayes Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:51:24 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-993 Rich - thanks for the comment. I had some concerns re the math as well and your first point is a good one - confusing use of 40%. For the second point, I had written a criticism initially noting that there were more bees in the truck than apparently exist in the US. However, I deleted that because at the very end of the article, the author did note that apparently now, the US has resorted to importing bees. So, even though it is not clearly explained at all, it's possible we were supposed to infer that most of the bees from that truck were imported bees. Either way, it seems like that author had a 4 minute deadline to work with and just threw this article together. Oh well, fun article to analyze anyway, hey? Rich - thanks for the comment. I had some concerns re the math as well and your first point is a good one - confusing use of 40%. For the second point, I had written a criticism initially noting that there were more bees in the truck than apparently exist in the US. However, I deleted that because at the very end of the article, the author did note that apparently now, the US has resorted to importing bees. So, even though it is not clearly explained at all, it’s possible we were supposed to infer that most of the bees from that truck were imported bees.

Either way, it seems like that author had a 4 minute deadline to work with and just threw this article together. Oh well, fun article to analyze anyway, hey?

]]> By: Rich http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/odd-bee-article-for-several-reasons/#comment-992 Rich Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:42:39 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-992 There are some serious problems with that story. "In the United States, the honeybee, the world's premier pollinator, experienced a dramatic 40 percent decline, from nearly six million to less than two and a half million, in the last two decades." First of all someone apparently can't do math. A 40% decline from 6 million would bring you down to about 3.6 million bees so either their are now only about 3.6 million bees or it went down about 40% or 2.4 million decrease. Second if the US bee population is somewhere around 2-3 million then they better get those 6 - 16 million bees running around because those must be the only bees left in the US. There are some serious problems with that story.

“In the United States, the honeybee, the world’s premier pollinator, experienced a dramatic 40 percent decline, from nearly six million to less than two and a half million, in the last two decades.”

First of all someone apparently can’t do math. A 40% decline from 6 million would bring you down to about 3.6 million bees so either their are now only about 3.6 million bees or it went down about 40% or 2.4 million decrease.

Second if the US bee population is somewhere around 2-3 million then they better get those 6 - 16 million bees running around because those must be the only bees left in the US.

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