[BC] An interesting statistic, 50 Million users

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Statistics are made up on the spot 86.2% of the time!  <g>

--chip

On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:38 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 3
> From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
>
> Yes! Every time you read or hear, "statistics prove?," you know that  
> the following words are BS. Statistics can never prove anything.  
> They are simply a demonstration mechanism that displays weighted data.
>
> I remember a documentary on an educational channel showing the  
> correlation between cancer deaths and high-tension power lines. It  
> ignored completely the petroleum refineries and hazardous waste  
> dumps in the area of interest, Bayonne, New Jersey! At the time, you  
> couldn't park your automobile there overnight without the paint  
> corroding.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson