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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4473)	2/13/2008 11:00:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I gave you a link to a Powerpoint presentation that had all that data included. Powerpoint presentations stacked from here to eterinty can only inform an argument, not make one. The data really doesn't speak for itself. I'm not (at least mostly not) saying the data's wrong, I'm saying its irrelevant to the point the authors of the piece are supposedly arguing for. I'm disputing their data, not their logic. Doubling, tripling, or increasing by 10^100 time the amount of data, or restating the same data a different way, doesn't strengthen the argument if the data isn't relevant. Putting it in a power point slide doesn't make it relevant. To counter a logical point you need logic not more data saying the same thing. I quibbled with "49% of world sales" vs " "48% of sales are in the US" OK, sorry about being 1% off. Other than that 1% difference the two statements mean the same thing.