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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Neil, you are right...but the salient point is in the words 'Daves explanation'
There are some stats that are meant to bamboozle and some of the explanations are meant to confuse.
If you do not have a high level of suspicion in relation to statitics, then you are a prime target to being bamboozled.
It pays to ask what criteria were used when compiling the stats...who compiled them and who paid for them......these questions will shine light into the dark corners where the lies(or should that read terminological inexactitude?) lurk.
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I didn't need any stats to tell me there are problems, first hand witness is fact enough for me
