99.9%….
July 15th, 2005
One would think that 99.9% accuracy rate would be great,
wouldn’t one? Well…. read the below statistics…. But
please don’t ask me for the source!!
If 99.9% is good enough 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