In Reply to: "690 F.G.A.s left last year alone" posted by Oldtimer on July 17, 2006 at 17:08:11:
Dear old timer sounds a bit disrespectful to call you that, at 50 yrs of age I feel a bit of an old timer myself.
The stats come from the stats that Peter sends out once a year usually arriving in January.
All I did was put two G.N.s together [stats for 2004 to 5 and stats for 2005 to 6] Then sat down with my calculator. [It took some time]
I did produce a writing along with these G.N.s scaned titled 'The stats Peter does not tell you about'
Working out the population of F.G.A.s was an easy one as it is just a matter of subtracting, of course Peter did not broadcast it so to find it out you would have to be interested enough to do some math.
Which most Family members don,t get into.
The hard stuff to decipher was some of the other stats in particular stats for S.G.A.s, total Family departure etc, some of which appeared to be deliberately made difficult to decipher.
After completing this I had my 25 yr old son who is a whiz at Maths and Stats check it.
In answer to your question no I am not a member of 'Makestraightpaths'niether am I assosiated with them.
The name does sound familier, what are they?
Hope thats a help
Much Love Steve.