Interesting headline in WaPo

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

We deal here with a blend: "twice as much as" + "two times more than".

Gerald Cohen
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victor steinbok [aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM], Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:07 PM, wrote:

http://goo.gl/hdfxut
Daughters provide twice as much care for aging parents than sons do, study
finds

"Than" kind of jumped out at me.

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