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When You're Talking Millions, The Exact Number Doesn't Really Matter
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The long-held belief is that there are 8 million rats in New York City, one for every human. And the winner of a competition held by the Royal Statistical Society of London has determined that the belief is not true. There are only two million rats in the city. He extrapolated numbers from complaints, multiplied by average rat colony sizes and the number of lots in the city infested, and, well, there it is. Don't you feel much better knowing this? (New York Times)
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