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The part bolded by me is how I understood the stats to add up. Each category includes the previous category or categories.
It does add up because I didn't include all the stats (they weren't relevant to Elizabeth and Lyric):
Families reported a child missing within 24 hours in 86.6% of all cases.
Families reported a child missing after more than 24 hours in 99% of all cases.
http://www.atg.wa.gov/uploadedFiles...)/Child_Abduction_Murder_Research/CMIIPDF.pdf
Sorry about that, I didn't intend to mislead you.
How does the cummulative, adding up each category, work? Interpretting the stats as cummulative, I only get 90%. The stats posted related to time delay between children missing and parents contacting authorities. What stats weren't included that correspond to time?
By adding in the last two stats, it's again more than 100% ... not feasible. The numbers don't make sense cummulatively or factually. Regardless, i suppose it's safe to assume that most parents, including those in custody disputes, have notified authorities about missing children within 4.5 hours. I'm not convinced that this helps us with understanding randomly abducted children ... stats are muddy.
I think I'll step away from the math ... stats is so easy to manipulate.