If you’ve ever sent in a mailbag question, you may have noticed that we sometimes wait a bit to answer it. We can’t get to all of your great questions each week, but many of them remain relevant and interesting enough that we can respond to them later on. Other questions require some reporting on our part, and it may take us longer than a week to check with various sources to gather the information necessary to address them.
I thought this was all worth mentioning, because three of the four questions featured in today’s mailbag were submitted more than an a week ago and a few deal with stats that have changed since the questions were submitted. We have updated the stats you’ll see in each question because those are the ones we are citing in our answers.
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