RE: lOSE-LOSE SITUATION
Its good that we have plenty of posters that care enough to keep the subject going and going and going .... kind like the energizer bunny. I'll just offer this up: the ability to use a calculator and the willingness to hammer away at it for hours to come up with a way of stating your case does not make one an expert. If a point is to be made, it shouldn't take statistical smoke and mirrors to make it. More importantly, constantly criticising without offering a better way is counterproductive. Anyone from any state can see that and should feel free to point it out.
Saying it over and over doesnt make it so..... unless you say it over and over and no one objects!!!