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| To think people earn a living quoting stats! What a meaningless statistic. 60% increase on say 10,000 homes is 16,000 homes. (That's not a realistic number btw ... just a number to show that this is not really a dramatic increase ... significant, maybe ... dramatic as it might seem, no way.
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| Re: To think people earn a living quoting stats! said by sbrook  :What a meaningless statistic. 60% increase on say 10,000 homes is 16,000 homes. I think it was Mark Twain that said, "There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians."
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Metairie, LA | Re: To think people earn a living quoting stats! "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." --Attributed to Disraeli in Mark Twain Autobiography (1924) vol. 1, p. 246 | |
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| said by av8r : said by sbrook :What a meaningless statistic. 60% increase on say 10,000 homes is 16,000 homes. I think it was Mark Twain that said, "There are liars, damn liars, and statisticians." That's cause the guy who said that apparently didn't take a stats course...
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| said by sbrook :What a meaningless statistic. 60% increase on say 10,000 homes is 16,000 homes. It rose from 2.0 mln in 2002 up to 3.2 mln in 2003.
That's not a meaningless statistic. | |
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