Disconnect

Good grief. The New York Times today carries an article about diabetics in which it discusses workplace discrimination against diabetics and then casually lets drop this interesting statistic:

The debate will probably intensify. The number of diabetics in America swelled by 80 percent in the past decade. Experts say the disease is on its way to becoming a conspicuous fact of life in the nation’s labor force, raising all sorts of issues for workers and managers.

Not a word, of course, about who these "Experts" are, who say, and so forth. Not a word about the actual numbers. An eighty per cent increase doesn't mean anything without a baseline figure. If we started out with five diabetics, and now have nine, it's nothing to worry about, yet. Damn, I hate stories like this. The peeved may complain here.

Stumble It!