Half-Baked Stats

This Boston Globe op-ed argues:

Although Gaza daily requires 680,000 tons of flour to feed its population, Israel had cut this to 90 tons per day by November 2007, a reduction of 99 percent.

But Martin Kramer astutely points out:

You don’t need to be a math genius to figure out that if Gaza has a population of 1.5 million, as the authors also note, then 680,000 tons of flour a day come out to almost half a ton of flour per Gazan, per day.

What other half-baked stats are the MSM accepting as canon?

(Hat tip: Daled Amos)