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    Statistics
    100% of all convicted criminals waiting on death row in the U.S. have eaten tomatoes :eek:

    More than 60% of men who died of heart attacks in Australia in the last 10 years have had hairy ear lobes ( After reading that fact I have kept mine well groomed and short)

    85% of people who don't use a calculator and take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30 .
    Add another 1000 . Now add 20 . Now add another 1000
    Now add 10 . and get a total of 5000 are wrong (its fourty one hundred) :confused:

    statistics can be interperated to read anything and are dependent on the way they are gathered thus they mean sweet f-all
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    I make only 6.

    I feel so cheap!

    Iain, either here or not.

    Care to explain that to my wife with the soccer player running around inside her?

    He's almost here, definitely here but not quite here all at the same time.

    Even more interesting, I think he might be able to collect 10 or 5 1/2 categories, depending on how you count them... :eek:

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    From a census or statistical point of view, you don't exist until you are born.
    Which brings a point for DanP, if a pregnant women is the only occupant in a car on an express lane, can she be charged????
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ashore
    85% of people who don't use a calculator and take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30 .
    Add another 1000 . Now add 20 . Now add another 1000
    Now add 10 . and get a total of 5000 are wrong (its fourty one hundred)

    statistics can be interperated to read anything and are dependent on the way they are gathered thus they mean sweet f-all
    You're right about the interpretation thing and statistics. In the example above there is no provision for the correct answer of 2100!

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    "take 1000 and add 40 to it." you begin with -960.

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    Apparently 67.35% of all statistics used in presentations are made up on the spot

    Richard

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    Oh I just love this kind of conversation.

    1. Do you know if you shrink your entire life into just one week then you would have spent pretty much 24 hours on a Monday.

    2. Statistically speaking 50% of any statistics are crap
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wongo
    Statistically speaking 50% of any statistics are crap
    Your 50% or my 50%
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    Your 50% or my 50%
    Mine is about 95% but on average it is roughly 50%.
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    Alcohol is involved in 25% of road accidents. and not involved in 75%. Therefore it is safer to drink and drive!
    Jack the Lad.

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    JackoH, QC, defender of the drink drivers
    How many cases have you won on behalf of your clients
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    All my grandparents died naturally. I ain’t eating anything natural.
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    Don'cha just love how we can screw up a thread?
    The only way to get rid of a [Domino] temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

    .....so go4it people!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenn_M
    I've seen a version that include us Aussies - sort of, we aren't enough to count without our neighbours it seems.........
    Cheers,
    Us? or us + our sheep? That'd change the balance - also make up the "odd" numbers peut etre.

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