>> Is this a fact, or just hype? It's hard to tell just by listening to 
>> the news. (If you believed them, bird flu is a deadly world-wide 
>> pandemic which is killing everything in sight...)
> 
> Or that HIV had just been cured because 51 got HIV who took the vaccine 
> compared to 74 otherwise.

Or that, yes.

> Anyway, I'm sure you can actually look up the real GCSE pass rates 
> rather than simply reading the text of news reports.

Somewhere somebody probably has all sorts of interesting statistics. 
Damned if I know how to find them though...

>>> When something stupid like 40% gets an A grade
>>
>> It's that high??
> 
> I was just making that bit up, after checking it's actually 20%.

Hmm, I take your point. That *is* pretty high. I was expecting A grades 
to be nearer to 0.02%. (Let's face it, most people are very, very stupid.)

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