So today at school we had to go to an assembly about drinking and driving, where a woman came up on stage and talked about how her sun talked about it. Boring 'boo hoo' stuff, you probably know the drill. But, she had the nerve to say that according to the CDC, 70% of teens have drank alcohol, and 90% of that 70% were binge drinking episodes. All of that, is completely wrong, which I learned after looking up the actual CDC numbers. A survey in 2013 that in a period of thirty days, 35% of drank some amount of alcohol, and 21% binge drank at least once. 21% is 60% of 35%, not 90%, to say that right out. Where she got the 90% was probably that 90% of all alcohol consumed by under-age drinkers is consumed during a binge drinking episode. I mean, did she even read the CDC Fact Sheet on underage drinking? And she wants to go up in front of nearly a thousand Juniors and Seniors, and tout those statistics as facts. She did, somehow, managed to get the 22% rode with an intoxicated driver- Actually, the way it's phrased is 'With a driver who had been drinking alcohol,' which doesn't strictly mean 'intoxicated.' Just means that, at some point at whatever event, the individual had a drink of some kind. For all you know 80% (Made up statistic) of those drivers could've had time to sober up before getting in the car. It also doesn't mean the driver was underage as well. So that was really a completely dumb statistic to quote. Not only that, but she also touted some statistic like 75% of teenagers who drink alcohol are High School Seniors, which is also, very, very wrong. It's also a statistic that doesn't exist anywhere. Even if it did, it'd be in the Monitoring The Future database, which does tones of statistics on teenagers, and reported that 39% of Seniors drink alcohol regularly. Which is high, yes, but just under 20% of Tenth Graders and 10% of Eighth graders do too, so unless there are almost four times as many seniors as eighth and tenth graders combined, that's another completely wrong statistic. So, sorry Lady, next time you do your bothersome speech that probably screwed people out of getting prom tickets, do some half-decent research. I mean, god damn.