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Don’t let the stats get in the way of a story

Staff Contributors

HOW we can all make statistics tell us what we want to know?

Premier Peter Malinauskas proudly declares that the revived Adelaide 500 was a ‘roaring success’, with attendances up by 25 per cent on the last race.

Everything is relative, the attendances at the last race were so poor that the event was disbanded!

Richard Harris, Gawler

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