: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:08 pm
yossarian wrote:
Or how about...
Yorkshire Region
Population 5.1m
Super League Clubs 7
North West Region
Population 6.8m
Super League Clubs 4
The comparison of these regions wold be
Yorkshire & Humberside + North East (As these would be a comparible land mass) versus North West. Like all stats you can fudge them to show the findings you're looking for.
For example, today i read in the paper that swine flu was going to cost the country £90 billion this year. However that was based on the fact that a statistician had arranged his numbers to say how many people were going to be off sick and what it would cost in lost work days. However the same days would still cost £90 billion regardless of the people being at work or not. Therefore the stat was useless, but sounds mindboggling!
At the end of the day, do you really think at the moment the RFL are looking at these stats your producing and thinking these are good stats for expansion or are they really thinking Scotland or Ireland or Russia or some other country. They're not thinking Lancashire or Yorkshire in my opinion. As proved with previous expansions.
