Comments on: I’m wrong to the finish, coz I eats my spinach… http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/01/07/im-wrong-to-the-finish-coz-i-eats-my-spinach/ A Website Dedicated to Information/Data Quality Disasters from Around the World Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:34:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Vincent McBurney http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/01/07/im-wrong-to-the-finish-coz-i-eats-my-spinach/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Vincent McBurney Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:01:49 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/01/07/im-wrong-to-the-finish-coz-i-eats-my-spinach/#comment-45 This was a good data quality mistake since it inspired the Popeye cartoon and made people eat more spinach - which has a lot of other good qualities other than iron. The good news is that you can get iron from Guinness. If for example you were to become vegetarian you would just substitute a lamb chop at dinner for 7 pints of Guinness and you get the same amount of iron! Even better news, six pints of Guinness has the same iron as a bowl of porridge. This was a good data quality mistake since it inspired the Popeye cartoon and made people eat more spinach – which has a lot of other good qualities other than iron.

The good news is that you can get iron from Guinness. If for example you were to become vegetarian you would just substitute a lamb chop at dinner for 7 pints of Guinness and you get the same amount of iron! Even better news, six pints of Guinness has the same iron as a bowl of porridge.

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