Forgive the caustic responses you may have heard from many of us, but, as some have pointed out, we have heard all the statistics before. We can usually even identify the study, its author(s), and dates of publication from just a single statistic from the study. As such, whenever we hear any of these discredited "facts" our sensitivity and courtesy filters are turned off. Thanks for the kind post. I guess my "problem" is that I haven't "heard all the statistics before."
I will say this - I have already learned a number of things via this thread.