A nice example of the "you can prove anything with statistics" type
occurred in today's BBC radio news and is available on the BBC website: "A
report from the Soil Association - which promotes organic produce - says
the government spends about 60p a head on prison food and 35p on school
food." (news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3162942.stm)
The figure does not seem to have been adjusted to allow for prisoners
mainly being older, larger and overwhelmingly male compared with school
children. It is also not clear whether the prison figure is averaged over
all meals in the day or was the cost of the "main meal". Curiously, the
Soil Association then attacks school catering for using processed
convenience foods, which I would expect to be *more* expensive to buy but
save costs in the kitchen.
R. Allan Reese Email: [log in to unmask]
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