"Todd Daugherty" wrote in message
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Well let's look at some numbers shall we....


The following are the Numbers of people entering the amateur radio
service:

DATE TOTAL
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12/04/04 671,837
01/02/05 667,562 down by 4,275
01/09/05 668,051 up by 489
01/16/05 668,750 up by 735
TOTAL STILL DOWN 3,015

The bottom line numbers really don't lie...people can say amateur radio is
on the rise but the actually truth is the number of people getting in the
service is still down from the previous month

Todd


And as any competent statistician can tell you, a variation over this short
time frame for this type of data is not likely to be significant. You have
to look at longer term data. In addition, changes of less than 1% are
seldom signficant.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE