The biggest I’ve seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.

https://explainxkcd.com/3065/

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    My medicine is fighting misinformation, guess what the source of that is here?

    I’m not doing this for you, you’ve shown yourself beyond saving.

    I’m doing this for the poor person who read your first comment, said, ‘yeah that sounds correct’ and gave you an up tick.

    My they, and others who stumbled upon it, read through our dialogue here and realize one of us has logic, and the other has “go take your meds”.