Bill Klinton's surgeon General (I can't remember that idiots name) once used "statistics" to proclaim that 30% of Americans had aids.
I had an exceptional statistics teacher in college. Not only did he know his stuff but made every student in his class read a little book called "How to Lie with Statistics". He made the point that through sample size and other data collection and manipulation techniques, you can take the same set of data and basically make it show whatever you want it to. It's exactly what the global warming crowd has been doing to keep their money train rolling down the tracks. Could it be done with deer population and harvest data if someone wanted to? Absolutely. Am I saying that is what the State is doing. No I am not but the smaller, less relevant or more isolated the sample size is when extrapolated to the population as a whole, the easier it is to make is show whatever you want it to.
