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Terry, you are SUCH a tease - firstly, brilliant post, and secondly, I thought 'right, I'll click on that Amazon link and have a look at the reviews', and I copied the following to show you, as it reminded me in no small way of your recent post about lousy statistics:

"Well, one of the things Potter highlighted was what I have decided to name "dangling statistics" – stats that seem to have no bearing on anything at all, ie no context, and no purpose.

For example, in the introduction to Lifemanship, there is a footnote which reads:

"According to Hulton Research, the number of lifemen who drink tea but never buy fireworks is 79… The figure for those who are interested in soap substitutes and have not yet been to Portugal is, however, 385."

The name of the reviewer - which I only noticed AFTER I'd decided to tell you all about it - is a certain Terry Freedman........ 🤣

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