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>> 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...)
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> 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
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>> 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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