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Question 1. The U.S. government keeps statistics on many people in America. One interesting statistic is the poverty rate. To be living in poverty, one must earn income below a certain threshold (approximately $900 per month). Many multimillionaires are included in this statistic. Recently, Barbara Streisand was "living in poverty." In a particular year, she did not perform live, and her album sales were extremely slow. She has a great deal of wealth but had little income that year. Although she has more money than 99.99% of the rest of the population, according to the government income threshold, she was considered to be impoverished. What other statistic can you name that is misleading? Why?

Question 2. You just saw a commercial for the Tread Master, an exercise machine that claims an average weight loss of 10 pounds. A commercial for the Climber, a competing product, claims that only 1 out of 10 users of the Tread Master lost any weight at all. The rest of them gained weight. How can both of these claims be true?

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