This reminds me of a letter to the Herald a year or two back, which basically went something like: Asians make up 6% of the population, but 2% of the crime statistics and therefore this must mean than 1/3 of asians are criminals. Haha, talk about totally misunderstanding stats. I couldn't believe they would actually publish a letter as clueless as that. Imagine what "proportion" of other ethnicities would be criminals if one did this "analysis" on them...