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Old 02-06-2013, 01:27 PM   #20 (permalink)
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All of which can be filed under the title "How To Lie With Statistics", perhaps cross-referenced under "How To Lie By Telling Part of the Truth". Despite attempts at misdirection, those graphs still show the unfortunate truth, which is that the US population just keeps on growing.

I hope you can accept basic arithmetic: both 399.8 million and 439 million are larger than 313 millon, are they not? So claiming that the population is not growing, and will not continue to grow absent some drastic change, is at best wishful thinking, despite the misleading negative numbers on the graph. Now if the predicted population for 2050 was 260 million, that would be a population decrease.

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