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>>>SKEPTICAL STATS from The Skeptic, 11.4>>>
1. Amount Harper?s magazine said Americans spent on psychic phone networks
in 1997: $1 billion
2. Number of stories Stephen Glass, who reported the above, fabricated in
New Republic 1994-97: 27
3. Number of turtles required to balance the Feng Shui of Richard
Gormley?s Angel of the North: 1
4. Estimated cost of crystal worn by Cherie Blair and described as a
"stress-busting shield": UKP239
5. Number of such crystals, priced between UKP100 and UKP749, sold in the
UK: 200
6. Number of Eagle Star employees hospitalised with burned feet after a
motivational firewalk: 7 of 10
7. Number of people hospitalised with burned feet after firewalks run by
the Wessex Skeptics: 0
8. Year British doctors began complaining about patients finding
information on the Internet: 1996
9. Estimated number of Americans who read their horoscopes each morning:
70 million
10. Cost of a personal five-year horoscope from Jonathan Cainer?s Web
site: UKP18.99
11. Median value of test group?s estimate of the product of 1 x 2 x 3 x 4
x 5 x 6 x 7x 8: 512
12. Median value of test group?s estimate of the product of 8 x 7 x 6 x 5
x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1: 2,250
13. Amount The Amazing Kreskin asked for to determine who is lying in the
Starr investigation: $1
14. Number of articles published about the 50th anniversary of Roswell in
1997: 1,009
15. Number of new motel rooms being built in Roswell: 200
16. Gartner Group estimate of cost to fix the Year 2000 computer bug, in
1993: $60 billion
17. Gartner Group estimate of cost to fix the Year 2000 computer bug, in
1996:  $300 to $600 billion
18. Number of web sites mentioning Feng Shui: 13,580
19. Number of books in print on Feng Shui: 134
20. Number of books in print on interior design: 2,014
21. Number of psychics predicting the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of
Wales, beforehand: 0
22. Number of psychics reported to have predicted the Year 2000 computer
millennium bug: 0
23. Percentage of UFOs UFOlogists agree have natural explanations: 90
24. Number of computers IBM head Thomas J. Watson thought would sell
worldwide, in 1943: 5
25. Year first studies were published that showed health hazards
associated with smoking: 1938
Skeptical Stats is compiled by David Morton and Wendy Grossman.  Please
send contributions (with source) to stats en skeptic.org.uk or to The Skeptic
(stats), PO Box 475, Manchester M60 2TH.
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