> [...] the 34 percent of people who say they believe in ghosts, [...] > the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects [...]
> [...] the roughly one-third who believe in ghosts and UFOs [...] That's either incompetent reporting or incompetent statistics. If one-third believe in A and one-third believe in B, the proportion who believe in A and B can be anywhere from zero to one-third. For these particular values of A and B, there is probably a positive correlation between the two, so the overlap is probably greater than the one-ninth that would be to be expected if they were independent. But I'm fairly sure it's not a perfect correlation. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
