Mark Twain's original observation was, "There are three types of lies. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics." By selecting the right set of parameters, statistics can be used to support nearly any view-even conflicting ones. Today, marketing pronouncements and news releases on RFID can be considered in much the same light as Twain's view of statistics. I'm going to digress for a moment and talk about "the multiplicity of truth," a concept I first encountered in a college Shakespeare class (don't worry, this won't be painful). The only thing I remember verbatim from that class was, in the middle of a heated discussion on the significance of some point, the professor smiling, leaning forward and very quietly saying, "That's true. And it's not true. And that's true too." (Hence, the "multiplicity of truth.")
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