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To: DJ MacWoW
The last thing that I read a few months back was some idiot statement like "80% of women over 50 have the virus and don't know it". WHAT? Then how do THEY know these women have it?!

Ummm ... ever heard of statistical extrapolation?

122 posted on 06/24/2007 3:32:35 PM PDT by TooLoudSchnauzer (Hush, now!)
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To: TooLoudSchnauzer
ever heard of statistical extrapolation?

Yup. Most of us call it guessing. And "guesstimates" are not fact.

125 posted on 06/24/2007 6:07:30 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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