WTF is up with this stupid statistic?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102800024.html

Relevant quote:
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Among bachelor's degree recipients in 1999-2000, the College Board said in its report, those who began their studies at four-year public colleges and universities took an average of 6.2 years to earn a degree. Those who began at four-year private institutions took an average of 5.3 years to graduate.

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I have some pretty lazy friends, but over the course of my entire college career I've maybe met half a dozen people who take more than five years to get a degree.

6.2??? No way in hell that's anywhere near right. And these are the same morons who are writing the SAT...I always knew the college board was a sham.

(BTW, I originally found this in US News and World Reports, so this is an X-ref)