Capt Mary Kidd wrote:
>The message
>from Phil contains these words:
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>> So 750,000 (UK) + 858,500 (Vancouver) = 1,608,500 alone. that leaves
>> about 251,000 for the rest of the world.
>
>Barcelona easily makes that up; for 2005 they have stated figures of
>1,220,000 cruise passengers "over half of which used the port for
>embarkation/disembarkation".. so 600,000+ boarded, forget Venice,
>Civitavecchia, Sydney, Rio, Singapore, Hong Kong and all the other large
>cruise hubs of the world, they aren't needed.
>
>> Like they say stats can be made to say anything you want them to.
>
>Yes, very true it seems
I thought that it went - Figures Lie, Liars Figure
Or
"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." -
Variously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Marshall, Mark Twain and
many other dead people.
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