Grey Ferret - adding them up makes the absurdity of their exaggerated or flat out made-up data sets come to light. While some people realize that a lot of this type of data is bad, others will take any numbers handed to them as gospel... although a lot of them can't be shown that the data is bad even though it creates numerical impossibilities.
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Grey Ferret - adding them up makes the absurdity of their exaggerated or flat out made-up data sets come to light. While some people realize that a lot of this type of data is bad, others will take any numbers handed to them as gospel... although a lot of them can't be shown that the data is bad even though it creates numerical impossibilities.