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Uschi said:
I don't think statistics (which, by the way, can be slanted to show anything you want them to) have any necessity in the discussion. It's common sense.



You certainly can lie with statistics but anyone who knows statistics can see when something doesn't look right. The design of such a study would be quite difficult since you are trying to get medical type accuracy (low variation) on behaviours that rely on self reporting at the inception. Did I say that? Must have been a statistical analyst in another life.

But I agree with your statement.

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.