[PhantomGremlin]

> This is a really shitty statistic and bad journalism.

I think part of the explanation can be found at the end:

   Max Ehrenfreund is a blogger
   on the Financial desk

I'm not really sure what standards the Washington Post applies to "bloggers" as opposed to their more mainstream news articles. But IMO at some other sites (Forbes comes to mind) bloggers aren't held to very high standards at all.

[ghaff]

Sure they are. They need to bring in pageviews :-)