Friday, July 13, 2007

Wow... I'll never trust statistics again

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a July 13 story about teen sex, The Associated Press, relying on numbers provided by the National Center for Health Statistics, reported erroneously that 9 million teens who said they had sex during a three-month period in 2005 used condoms. The correct number is about 3 million, the center now says after reviewing the figures.

1 comment:

Kate said...

I just want to know how you make a mistake like that. Oh, whoops, we accidentally forgot to analyze 2/3 of our database . . .