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Old 01-09-2002, 04:58 PM  
baddog
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tekart,

Have you ever heard the saying that you can prove anything with numbers or statistics? You have definitely taken that to a new level. Allow me to expound.

First you say, Estimated U.S. population as of July, 7th 2000: 6.1 BILLION PEOPLE (6,137,400,560)
Estimated U.S. population expected one year later 6.2 BILLION PEOPLE (6,234,250,378)
Growth over one year, for those who can't easily do the math, is 96,849,818!


Then you say, The current world population is over 6 billion well duh. If the US population is at 6.1 billion, then I will make an educated guess that the world population exceeds 6 billion

Then you state, U.S. population has increased 85 percent since 1950, growing from 151 million to 283 million in just fifty years. If present trends continue, our population will reach 400 million by the year 2050. What happened to the 6 billion we had a few lines earlier?

Your stats remind me of another saying, "If you can not dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."

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