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

From: Rich Grise (rich_at_example.net)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 02:55:45 GMT

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:00:41 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

> 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.
>

Can you show us? I tried to work it out and got confused. Like, say
there's 2 men and 2 women. Each of the men fucks both women, but each
woman only fucks ... wait a second...

See my problem here?

Thanks,
Rich

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