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Originally posted by MysticCat81 Thanks, decadence, but if you look back at my post, you'll see that I only asked for sources on the two other claims -- that 71% in Who's Who in America are Greek and that 85% of Fortune 500 executives are Greek.
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I was speaking generally
. In my defence, it was about 3am and while it took some time to verify the Presidential statistics, to verify say the 85% of Fortune 500 executives being Greek item, would - in the absence of any published studies citing it (I could not find any) - require me to a) decide myself what constitutes an 'executive' e.g board member, b) find out the 500 companies listed, c) find out their executives and research any greek affiliation for them before finally calculating the percentage which turned out to be Greek! I decided to go and sleep instead
Originally posted by MysticCat81: I did not ask for confirmation on the "80% of Presidents" claim because that one is much easier to check out, as you have demonstrated.
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Well... I wouldn't say it was easy!
Originally posted by MysticCat81: (And this claim is much more accurate than the all too commonly heard claim that "all but two presidents since 1825 have been Greek.")
Yup, I found out last night how accurate that one was!