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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (4858)	2/24/2008 10:20:19 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<< The topic was statistical disparity in America. Even in ice skating judging, you throw out the top and bottom scores simply because they are outliers.>>> In a sample size of ten, one percent has no meaning. In this case were are talking about a sample size of 300 million. One percent or 3 million is very relevant. John was talking about the 3 million at the top having as much wealth as 165 million on the bottom. Those are statistically very meaningful numbers. A lot of the middle class is in the 165 million.