# Bricker is a Pile of Shit Sculpted into Human Shape

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**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344 "2017-03-30T13:46:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-is-a-pile-of-shit-sculpted-into-human-shape/783344/133 "2017-05-10T00:13:05Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=818576](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=818576)
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> Post #23. To your infinitesimal credit, you actually acknowledge the error later in the thread. It was so refreshing to hear you do that instead of trying to argue about all the times that liberals have made math mistakes, that it etched itself indelibly on my memory.

That wasn’t a math error:

> [@Jill Stein is a stupid cretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jill-stein-is-a-stupid-cretin/779313/61):
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> I missed this post until now, with the bumped thread.
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> You’re right, and I was looking at a non-final set of figures. My mistake.

My error was relying on a citation _that I quoted at the time_ with wrong (non-final) figures. It was an error, it was my error, but it wasn’t a math error.

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