On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 08:23 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 3:27 PM -0400 4/14/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > > >Statistics are easy to find: > > > > > > > > http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-281187/tm.htm#281187 > > > > > > Okay, so read them. > > > >I did just before I posted the link :) > > > > > In the first post you'll find (from my old college CSUN) this: > > > > > > http://www.imtc.gatech.edu/csun/stats.html > > > > > > It states that 19.4 percent of the population is disabled -- that's > > > about twenty times the number you cited. > > I just want to clarify a point, you previously said that less than 1% > of the population is disabled and then to support your claim you > provide a link that says something different. Instead, the link > quotes a figure twenty times your estimation, so what is your claim? > Is the percent of disabled one or twenty? I didn't provide a link to support my claim, I provided a link to prove how easy it was to find statistics. That my 1% asstistic was wrong was not surprising; however, your claim is not quite right either since the value of 19.4% is a value for all disabilities, not just ones that benefit from visual issues. The actual number of visual disabilities I believe was around a third of the given number, so closer to 6.5%-- I would increase that a bit for mental disabilities that may make processing of information more difficult. That said, I live in Canada, our disability numbers are around 12% versus the US 19.4%. So, there is marked difference between countries. So to set the record straight, I wasn't claiming anything and neither of our asstistics were correct :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
