NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Nobel Laureate In Economics Can't Count
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who received a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences last year, posted this at 8:09 this morning:
Last night I participated in the Ig Nobels, where I gave one of the 24/7 lectures. These are 24 seconds of impenetrable jargon, followed by a 7-word explanation of your field.
Krugman’s 24 seconds of impenetrable jargon, were, indeed, impenetrable, but it was the 7-word explanation that made people scratch their heads: "Greedy people, competing, make the world go round."
At 8:20, the first of many readers noted: "I’m reading eight words."
Now, if Krugman had taken out the word "greedy," the statement would have been accurate in more ways than one.
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