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Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics

Posted by samzenpus on from the nine-lies dept.

spopepro writes "While un-captioned cats might be of limited interest to the /. community, I found this column on how a fabricated statistic takes on a life of its own interesting. Starting with the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) claim that the unsterilized offspring of a cat will '...result in 420,000 cats in 5 years,' the author looks at other erroneous numbers, where they came from and why they won't go away."

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  1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    *math

    or alternatively, *mathematics

    not maths. you don't just randomly remove part of the word in the middle -- enjoy your daily dose of sanity, logic, and reason, inept.

  2. Re:No Don't Ruin This, I Need This! by khallow · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Female students (20.4%) were significantly more likely than male students (3.9%) to report they had ever been forced to have sexual intercourse."

    And not all forced sexual intercourse is rape. Especially given that a number of women still do the "no means yes" game for testing mates.