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To: ElkGroveDan

If you believe statistics, you’ll believe anything. To quote Mark Twain, “There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics.”


103 posted on 12/06/2007 4:14:57 PM PST by FFranco
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To: FFranco
If you believe statistics, you’ll believe anything. To quote Mark Twain, “There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are statistics.”

If you come to conclusions by just anecdotes in the news then you are even more gullible than I am. I prefer to see real numbers and the real numbers show that the percentage of priests accused of these crimes is no different that any other similar profession.

But if you want lots of news stories on molesters, here are a whole lot of them: http://reformation.com/

105 posted on 12/06/2007 4:18:39 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (If Rudy's an influential conservative, then I'm an award winning concert pianist.)
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