[Bell Historians] Dubious stats (was Jubilee bells ringing)

[Robert Lewis]

At 08:55 20/02/2012, John wrote:

>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103234/Britains-bells-ring-musical-celebration-jubilee.html?ito=feeds-newsxml. 
>
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>It says: 'Britain has about 6,000 bell towers and enough experienced
>bellringers to operate just over 2,000 of them."
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>Where does that figure come from?
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>AFIA 2 out of 3 towers aren't silent.  And if they divide number of ringers
>by number of bells, again AFIA, the number isn't far from 1.


I suppose the moral is: "don't believe everything you read in The Daily Mail".

RAL