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CHRISTOPHER Huhne (Business, 21 November) says that the misunderstanding of probabilities applies in many other fields. Indeed it does.

If one in ten of the workforce is a graduate, and three in four of top managers are graduates, then, compared to a graduate, a non-graduate is competing with nine times as many peers for one-third the number of top jobs. His chances of becoming a top manager would therefore be improved twenty-sevenfold by a university degree.

Noel Petty, Stockton-on-Tees

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