Plausible Statistics
Improbable information from unknown sources
Percentage of back doctors who themselves suffer chronic back pain: 82
Percentage of back doctors who claim to have cured themselves of chronic
back pain: 61
Percentage of them who claim to have done so via surgical means: 8
Percentage of them who say that if they had to do it over again they would
choose another doctor: 50
Percentage of elected politicians found to display clear symptoms of pathological
psychosis: 31
Percentage of people diagnosed as having clear symptoms of pathological
psychosis who have at some point in their lives seriously consider entering
politics: 43
Percentage of people entering politics who have at some point in their lives been diagnosed as having clear symptoms of pathological psychosis: 43
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