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Originally Posted by Quixote
A clear, objective, realistic view—thank you—but not according to Blechman who likely knew that it would not sell books....
In the heyday of the carrying-on of those touting the 'STD school of negativity,' counts of STDs are maintained by county, not by neighborhoods, villages, or The Villages. But in one of those year the naysyers were carrying on about the count of one STD having doubled, or increased 100%. It turned out that in actual numbers, in one y ear there had been two cases, while the following year there were four! And to think there are actually people who buy into this type of interpretation....
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Lol!
Gotta love what Mark Twain had to say about the three kinds of untruths: "Lies, damned lies, and statistics".
I remember something similar some years back. Couple of decades, maybe. Anyway the discussion involved the death penalty, and the state of Texas was getting mercilessly raked over the coals for LEADING THE NATION in executions the previous decade. Lots of hand-wringing over that. As I recall the hand-wringers didn't like it at all when it was pointed out to them that the state with actually the most executions per capita (which is what really matters, after all) was not Texas at all but DELAWARE.
Same kind of "reasoning" that was used regarding TV and STDs.