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To: fresc who wrote (38656)	3/2/2005 7:45:30 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

As you already know, Laz isn't the brightest tool in the shed. He has a lot of trouble when there are too many numbers to think about and doesn't realize that they change over time. Sampling techniques give slightly different results, some people round, etc. A person with three neural pathways would have figured that anything in the 40-45 million range is well within the margin of error. Someone with 6 neural pathways would have jumped to the 85 million number as substantially different and would have gone to the detail to see that the number was generated over a 4 year period rather than a snapshot picture. The twenty million number requires 7 neural pathways to figure out that they were only counting workers, i.e., not individuals that may be part of a family. Anecdotal aside: I was in a local restaurant/pub where I shoot some pool from time to time and was talking to a waiter that I was familiar with about health care insurance. As I expected, the restaurant didn't have health care insurance as an option. I asked him how he was handling his health care. He mentioned that he had a hearing problem with one ear, took a visit to the doctor who said it might possibly be a tumor but since he didn't have health insurance there was no point in testing if it was a tumor. If it was, he wouldn't be able to afford the medical care, so why bother? In doctor's terms, this is referred to as an "unnecessary test". jttmab