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Week 7: 'Lies, damn lies and statistics'

By Dave Revsine
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 12, 2006

One thing about writing a column about numbers each week is the obvious realization that the numbers can be quite deceptive -- we've all heard Mark Twain's diatribe regarding "lies, damn lies and statistics." I've tried hard in the month and a half I've been doing this to point out spots where I think the statistics might, in fact, be lies, and I've tried to use other numbers to support those assertions. For instance, two weeks ago, I used some numbers regarding Georgia's opponents' offens ...

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