It does not get more uneducated and anti-science than Trump. I mean, the guy is functionally illiterate. A publication that is based on science and reports on science is under existential threat by such a cave-man.
It does not get more uneducated and anti-science than Trump. I mean, the guy is functionally illiterate.
I don't know, Trump said he read Woodward's 480 page book, "Rage", on the 3.5 hour flight home from a rally the other day. According to "So, Donald Trump read 'Rage' in 1 night? Um..." [cnn.com] that would be less than 30 seconds / page or about 900 words/minute.
So, that's about three and a half hours of travel time. The Woodward book, according to Amazon, is 480 pages long.
A bit of back-of-the-envelope math produces this: Trump would have had to read, roughly, 2.2 pages a minute in order to finish the whole book on the flight. That's less than 30 seconds per page.
Which is very fast! The average reader (someone who reads 300 word per minute) takes about 1.7 minutes to read a book page, while a fast reader (450 words per minute) just over 1 minute.
In order then for Trump to have actually read the whole book, he would need to have read more than twice as fast as a fast reader, consuming 900 words or more every minute.
And when I say every minute, I mean every minute. As in, all 210 minutes it took him to fly from Arizona to DC. No staring out the window for five minutes. No naps. No checking his phone. No tweeting. (According to his timeline, Trump or his staff sent 12 tweets or retweets while on the flight back to DC.) No nothing -- except reading 900 words a minute.
So, not only does he read, he's apparently one of the fastest readers *ever* -- probably the fastest and strongest (so fast folks).:-)
Is this any surprise? (Score:1, Insightful)
It does not get more uneducated and anti-science than Trump. I mean, the guy is functionally illiterate. A publication that is based on science and reports on science is under existential threat by such a cave-man.
Re:Is this any surprise? (Score:2)
It does not get more uneducated and anti-science than Trump. I mean, the guy is functionally illiterate.
I don't know, Trump said he read Woodward's 480 page book, "Rage", on the 3.5 hour flight home from a rally the other day. According to "So, Donald Trump read 'Rage' in 1 night? Um..." [cnn.com] that would be less than 30 seconds / page or about 900 words/minute.
So, that's about three and a half hours of travel time. The Woodward book, according to Amazon, is 480 pages long.
A bit of back-of-the-envelope math produces this: Trump would have had to read, roughly, 2.2 pages a minute in order to finish the whole book on the flight. That's less than 30 seconds per page.
Which is very fast! The average reader (someone who reads 300 word per minute) takes about 1.7 minutes to read a book page, while a fast reader (450 words per minute) just over 1 minute.
In order then for Trump to have actually read the whole book, he would need to have read more than twice as fast as a fast reader, consuming 900 words or more every minute.
And when I say every minute, I mean every minute. As in, all 210 minutes it took him to fly from Arizona to DC. No staring out the window for five minutes. No naps. No checking his phone. No tweeting. (According to his timeline, Trump or his staff sent 12 tweets or retweets while on the flight back to DC.) No nothing -- except reading 900 words a minute.
So, not only does he read, he's apparently one of the fastest readers *ever* -- probably the fastest and strongest (so fast folks). :-)
Re: (Score:2)
If you believe what a pathological and narcissistic liar claims about his prowess, then you are a fool.