>> 100 hives, lose 30, double to 170
>
> Sorry, I hope folks realized I meant doubled to 140. It was a typo
> and not a math error  ; )

That was no error, Pete. Beekeepers use a special version of arithmetic
that allows them to believe what the want to.

Otherwise they could not afford to be beekeepers.

We are not alone, though.  Researchers have a special version of stats
that lets them fit the data to the expectations of the funding organization.

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