Norman Mailer is probably ashamed of you. Psst. I have something to tell you: factoid probably doesn't mean what you think it means. Don't worry, though, you are not alone and you can change. I, too, ...

If you use the word "factoid" to describe a single bit of important information or "factoids" to talk about several pieces of such data, we will get complaints. Here's why: Norman Mailer gets the ...

Discarded broken pots from a looted Early Bronze Age tomb, Fifa, Jordan (photo by Austin (Chad) Hill, courtesy the Landscape of the Dead Project) Though Yates and Brodie agree that the illegal trade ...

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The word “factoid” has now become a factoid. In an ironic, postmodern twist, most people now confuse the definition of the term, believing that it represents a small piece of statistical data. In the ...

The controversy over counting re-exports in the trade deficit derives from a common fallacy that I call factoid economics. You’ve heard people exclaim, “The real unemployment rate is ten percent!.” ...