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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pariah" data-source="post: 1777005" data-attributes="member: 23126">People tend to quote those statistics which suit them best.In Ireland, one High up Rarity committee member once tried to convince a good friend of mine that I was a stringer by stating that the percentage of rarities I found that were confirmed was just 60%ish whilst his was 80%ish.Apart from being an inaccurate count(its actually closer to 73%), he neglected to mention that even if it were true, that 60% counted for a rather large volume and variety of rares.It really showed me that if people want to badmouth you, no amount of evidence will dissuade them.OwenOwen</blockquote>