Re: Kerry still persists as a liar, Was: Re: The Not-So-Democratic Party, Part II

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_green.rahul.net)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:57:23 +0000 (UTC)

In article <sk0do09pe0qn0o00rihkj3p8dhnenf0uu6@4ax.com>,
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:
[...]
>Without meaning to offend, I have noticed that more liberal people
>tend to be innumerate. Something in my brain just automatically
>sanity-checks any numbers I see (habit developed from engineering, of
>course) and I'm astounded by how much of the stuff in the press makes
>no sense, orders of magnitude off from reality. I guess they don't
>teach much math in journalism school.

Some years back there was one "statistic" that was widely reported that
just floored me. They claimed that straight men had on the average twice
as many sex partners as straight women. A lot of people repeated that
without realizing that it simply can't be true. 

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