You’ve received e-mails from friends and family that make you wonder if it’s really true! Sometimes these e-mails relate to monstrous atrocities being planned by the government or maybe the heart-warming treacle of a light bit of entertainment couched as a “true story”!
Either way it’s important to know, when you first start to get into the e-mail what the likelihood is that it’s true!
Behold the E-Mail Veracity Equation! (Thanks in large part to a friend (Dr. W.) for the core of the equation.)
Pt is the probability that the e-mail contains a true story
Nf = number of times it has been forwarded (just count the number of forwards, not the number of people to whom it has been forwarded)
F = Font size (points)
C = 1 if it is any font other than “comic sans seriff”, 2 if it is comic sans seriff
Now it’s a quick matter of figuring out what the likelihood is that the e-mail you are investing your time and heart into is actually true!
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