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Old 04-02-2012, 11:07 AM
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Default Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics
If the number of cases of chlamydia in the age 55 and over age group were 2 in one year and 4 in the next, then that's a 100% increase. So what does a 71% increase mean? Don't pay any attention to percentages. Statistics can be manipulated to "prove" just about anything.

Try googling "are there swingers in (whatever your home town is )". You'll probably get a similar number of sites as you did when you entered "The Villages". Porn sites, etc. are programmed to pick up on the word "swingers" and will give you responses no matter where you live.

Sex sells newspapers! And magazines, and books, and TV shows, and movies, and on and on. Truth is usually not involved.