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To: newgeezer

"12% more likely" is bad wording.

Later in the article, it explains that 11% of heteros were criminals, versus 23% of homosexuals. So its more than 100% more likely.


38 posted on 06/14/2005 8:59:15 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus; biblewonk
"12% more likely" is bad wording. Later in the article, it explains that 11% of heteros were criminals, versus 23% of homosexuals. So its more than 100% more likely.

Oh fercryinoutloud. This writer looked at 23% vs. 11% and concluded this means homos are [23 - 11 =] 12% more likely?!!

"Bad wording"? LOL. The writer is an imbecile.

48 posted on 06/14/2005 9:21:38 AM PDT by newgeezer (Pessimists are often right—and are delighted to be proved wrong. --Geo. F. Will)
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To: dangus
Later in the article, it explains that 11% of heteros were criminals, versus 23% of homosexuals. So its more than 100% more likely.

Not to quibble, but the article says booked for comitting a crime, not convicted.

77 posted on 06/14/2005 3:02:36 PM PDT by Modernman ("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
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