Lehigh Chamber claims to have the numbers to support incorporation. Or do they?

The Lehigh Acres Chamber of Commerce recently published a survey where our of 109 members of the Chamber who responded to their survey [out of the 350 they sent out], a whopping 68% stated they support the incorporation of Lehigh Acres.

It appears to say the people of Lehigh want to be incorporated. But when you look at what these numbers really mean, it tells a different story.

So let's pull this apart and look at it:

68% of 109 people: is 74.12 people, so we'll just say 75 for the sake of discussion.

Now there are about 50,000 people in Lehigh Acres [at the last estimate]. And of course the Chamber never bothered to ask the community as a whole, and I have to wonder why?

Let's get back to the 75 members of the Chamber who want incorporation. Our population is around 50,000 and 75 people isn't even one percent [it works out to .0015, which is .15% ].

So, according to the chamber, 68 % of their survey wants to be incorporated, which, in reality is 15% of Lehigh Acres.

Nothing like a little junk science to make a mountain out of a mole hill.