Comment yay Peter (Score 1) 175
Peter does a lot of good work cutting thru bad statistics. Very much a feline advocate of the first order and does quite a bit of TNR in his own area.
Lies, Damned Lies and Cat Statistics 175
spopepro writes "While un-captioned cats might be of limited interest to the /. community, I found this column on how a fabricated statistic takes on a life of its own interesting. Starting with the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) claim that the unsterilized offspring of a cat will '...result in 420,000 cats in 5 years,' the author looks at other erroneous numbers, where they came from and why they won't go away."
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