The government needs a calculator

In my ongoing inability to say no to any odd job offer I get, I spent a little time recently researching statistics for The Business Journal. I took a spin by the Department of Commerce Web site where I ended up on the commercial service site, BuyUSA. And that was where I found this gem of a stat:

Of minority-owned businesses, 39.5 percent were Hispanic-owned, 30.0 percent Asian-owned, 27.1 percent Black-owned, and 6.5 percent American Indian-owned.

Sadly, I just skimmed it and missed that it adds up to 103.1 percent. Yup.

On the upside, my blunder was overshadowed by the fact that our government missed it too.