Hey, NAR. Nice treat seeing both you and Juan in the same thread. Feels like old times. Anyway, since we've gone off on a tangent on statistics, I was recently treated to some dubious ones that tried to convince me that dreams that, seemingly, predict the future are to be expected considering the size of the population. The reasoning was that since there's hundreds of millions of people sleeping in America every night it's statistically guaranteed that someof those people are going to have dreams that come true. What do you think of that? Do you think that's good reasoning? I don't. How do you statistically determine how many dreams will come true? The ironic thing is that this was in a book on critical thinking. Sheesh.

Also, I think Juan's critique of Paddy's statistics misses the mark, if I'm reading him right. True, Paddy is drawing from a small sample who fit a similar demographic, but I think it's enough to determine if people who stick with M are happy or not. What IS missing from Paddy's statistics are the people who DIDN'T stick with M, or are questioning their involvement. What is THEIR happiness quotient? Also, what's the percentage of people who stuck with chubby compared to those who split? Paddy just gives stats for people he knows that stuck with M. That is far from the complete story.