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To: TimF who wrote (27894)	8/3/2017 12:25:17 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 354948

>> The data put in to the original 97% claim just doesn't support the claim. I saw the same mistake made in an article yesterday that pertained drug testing for certain welfare recipients. There were 65 positive drug tests out of a total of 609 people who took the drug test. Thus 11% tested positive. But he determined it was 0.16 because he took 65/39121 -- the total number of people receiving the benefit, yielding 0.16%. This was his proof that drug testing wasn't a good value. Yet, the proper inference is 65/609 = 0.11 = 11%. But that article was written by a news man. Obviously one who lacks certain reasoning ability.