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| Quote: Palau: Is it the world's cannabis capital? | |
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| Quote: A small group of Pacific islands with the population of a small town has been named as the country with the highest consumption of beer and cannabis. Is that really true? | |
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Alternatively it could be titled Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18736585
On beer the truth emerges.
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| Quote: More importantly, perhaps, while Palauans seem to drink a lot of beer, they don't drink much of anything else. If one looks at the total amount of alcohol consumed - rather than just beer - Palau slips down to 42nd place out of 188 | |
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On cannabis the truth emerges
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| Quote: The report's authors could not obtain survey data for adults in Palau. So they used a survey of cannabis use among state high school pupils and extrapolated those results to estimate a figure for the whole adult population. | |
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A classic example of getting numbers to not tell the whole truth.
