“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” This quote was attributed to Benjamin Disraeli by Mark Twain, and Disraeli is as good an originator as any, even though no evidence exist that Disraeli ever said it.
The quote does however ring in my ears when I read the reporting on the British Office for National Statistic’s recent survey of about 250000 Britons concerning their households.
The survey has come to the astonishing conclusion that there are a combined number of gay and bisexuals of 1.5%. An earlier 2004 survey conducted by the Treasury spoke of between 5-7 percent. (more…)
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