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surrealAmerican

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7. This is a misleading chart.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 11:30 AM

May 2012

The people surveyed were responding to what they thought other people (in groups that they themselves may not belong to) would want.

The only bit of useful information in the chart is the "you and your family" line. It's optimistic, but not nearly as much so as the misleading information it's presented with.

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