reality is, as have have pointed out elsewhere, is that when you listen to statistics that are provided by any group that has an axe to grind, especially when that group has unlimited money to pay full time salaries of the statisticans, you can get any result you want...
I vividly remember the first day of Stats 201 in college and the professor, to make a point, said that a statistican coule prove ot diapprove just about anything ot everything on the planet... He then went to the chalk board and proved that 1 = 2!!! Hmmmmmm???
So be very mindfull of tables and graphs because behind them there is generally an agenda... And also be very mindfull that the righties represent the status quo and that's just what the corportists are all about... And the corportists have, ahhhhh, all the money and therefore most of the statisticans???