[WikiEN-l] Re: Bot for generating articles on cities in Israel

Mon Sep 15 16:59:35 UTC 2003

Gutza wrote:
> 
>>> I wouldn't object, but the following part is a bit
>>> unclear:
>>>
>>> The ethnic makeup of the city is 80.5% Jewish and
>>> other, and 20.0% Arab (15.4% Muslim and 4.0%
>>> Christian). There are 450 new immigrants.
>>
>>
>>
>> What's unclear about it? Also, do you think that there are too many 
>> statistics, or too few? There are a lot more statistics available, but 
>> I don't want to clutter up the pages with a bunch of useless statistics.
> 
> 
> The city appears to be made up of 100.5% of its population. Of that, 20% 
> of the population is made of 15.4%+4%=19.4%. We can safely conclude that 
> the population is more than the population, from which the Arabs are 
> less than the Arabs. I think that's a bit unclear. :)

That's the data that I got from the CBS's web site, so there's not too 
much I can do about it. I assume that the slight inconsistencies are a 
result of overlap or incorrect reporting or non-reporting by some residents.

-- Adam Raizen