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Subject:Re: The ultimate in understatement? From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:40:10 -0700
"Michele Davis" <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com> wrote in message news:211756 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> You know what? Minnesota has the largest theatre attending community in
> the nation! And we have the oldest running community theatre. All these
> nuggets of useless information are available in the calendar I produced,
> called, Minnesota's Finest.
Largest? Or highest per capita?
There's a big difference--and it's a good example of how statistical terms
can be confused (and be used to mislead).
