A controversy arose in 1992 over the Teen Talk Barbie doll, each of which was programmed with four sayings ran

Question

A controversy arose in 1992 over the Teen Talk Barbie doll, each of which was programmed with four sayings randomly picked from a set of 270 sayings. The controversy was over the saying, “Math class is tough,” which some felt gave a negative message toward girls doing well in math. In an interview with Science, a spokeswoman for
Mattel, the makers of Barbie, said that “There’s a less than 1% chance you’re going to get a doll that says math class is tough.” Is this figure correct? If not, give the correct figure.

Answer 1

The computer chip in the "Teen Talk Barbie" randomly selects four phrases for each doll from a selection of 269 sayings.
I don't know if the 1% figure is correct or not. Sorry, I cannot do the maths for that. But they were the figures.
The "offensive" saying was deleted from the doll in 1992.
From the NY Times:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DE103AF932A15753C1A964958260

There has been a lot of other controversy surrounding the Barbie doll.
Check out some of it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie

Answer 2

My daughter had that doll. That saying would be heard almost everytime she played with it. My daughter, who was 8 at the time, got tired of it as math was not tough for her. She got bored with the doll after 3 months and it ended up in storage. We pulled box from storage, we found out out cats had use that box - and only that one, as a substitue litterbox! The doll was ruined.

Anyway, if you do just basic math, 4/270 is 1.48%.

Answer 3

each and every of the toddler Dolls I Had broken becuase eveytime you wouldhold thier abdomen they could cry. I had alot of barbies. the single I enjoyed the main became the pregnant one the growth boomed with ken. and had a toddler all interior an identical hour =D

Answer 4

how am i supposed to know? math is tough.