Curiouser and curiouser--was Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

I recently made several posts in which I mentioned that only two of the 
14-17 year old girls being held were pregnant, basing that on the CNN 
story. When I later went back to check the details, that detail was 
missing. I thought perhaps I had misread the story, and even put a 
correction? addition on my blog post.

But then I found the Time magazine story, which had the same 
information--two girls pregnant out of 53. It's hardly likely that I 
imagined the right number, so it looks very much as though CNN 
originally had it then quietly revised the page to remove it. 

One might almost suppose that someone at CPS realized that the number 
didn't serve their purposes and did his best to retroactively suppress 
it. Of course, that leaves it looking rather odd that they give the 
total of pregnant or mothers but don't give a figure for pregnant. 
Lumping a small number with a big number and giving the sum so as to 
make the small number look bigger is a standard trick in deceptive 
statistics.

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