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

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:00:41 -0800

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:57:23 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@green.rahul.net (Ken
Smith) wrote:

>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.
>

Of course it can be true.

John

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