Swedish math

"Every other man and about a third of all women in Sweden is overweight or fat. This is what the Statistic Central Bureau (SCB) shows in a study of living conditions, publicized in March 2007. This means that ten percent of both the men and the women are fat."

Shit, I must suck at math.

every other = 1/2
third = 1/3
ten percent = 1/10
How the fuck does 1/2 of men + 1/3 of woman = 1/10 of men and woman?

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My point exactly. This could have been right if the 10% "fat" didn't count the other percentage who was merely "overweight", but they wrote "This MEANS", meaning that you can somehow deduce the 10% from the previous statement.

I'm surprised to see this slip at a site called (from swedish) "research.se".

Original link:
http://www.forskning.se/temaninteraktivt/teman/globalfetma/tiofragorsvar/fragorochsvar/hurvanligarfetma.5.61c03dad1180e26cb8780005234.html

Any theories on this, 4chan? "Skinners fat"? An alien non-euclidic race of vastly superior researchers toying with our weak minds?