Their numbers or my numbers?
I too know how to do stat analysis and the first thing you do is do the actual count yourself.
When it comes to people, this is easily accomplished by going to a public place for a day where you can count at least 3000 people. Then you note the number of fat people.
When you see that number of fat people are higher than the number of not-fat people (the word used to be "normal") you think, "maybe I ought to visit several other places to confirm this". When the number still remains the same, i.e. more fat people than normal people, it's easy to see that these reports are damned lies.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
