Text 25367, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-11-21 01:47:18 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25359 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Statistics
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Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>> Ed Hulett -> Bob Ackley wrote:
 EH>>>> Bob Ackley -> Sean Dennis wrote:
 BA>>>>> Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to All:

 SD>>>>>> Hello, All.

 SD>>>>>> (Something that was sent to me...thought it was interesting
 SD>>>>>> [especially the conclusion].)

 SD>>>>>> If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000
 MG> troops in
 SD>>>>>> the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a
 MG>>> total
 SD>>>>>> of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000
 SD>>>>>> soldiers.

 SD>>>>>> The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for
 MG>>> the
 SD>>>>>> same period.

 SD>>>>>> That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and
 EH>>>> killed in
 SD>>>>>> the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control
 MG>>> laws in
 SD>>>>>> the nation, than you are in Iraq.

 SD>>>>>> Conclusion: The US should pull out of Washington D.C.!

 BA>>>>> You need a better statistician.  The statistics given for Iraq
 MG>>> include
 BA>>>>> only US
 BA>>>>> troops and those for DC apparently include everybody.  In order to
 EH>>>> draw
 BA>>>>> a proper conclusion you need to either factor in *all* of those
 EH>> being
 BA>>>>> killed
 BA>>>>> in Iraq, or factor out all US troops killed in DC.

 BA>>>>> And a better logician.  If no US troops are being killed in DC then
 BA>>>>> there's no
 BA>>>>> risk to them and no reason to pull them out.

 EH>>>> Notice he didn't say troops?

 MG>>> I think that escaped Bob's notice.  :)

 EH>> Plus, it was the number of Americans killed. That's the whine from the
 EH>> Angry Left, so what is he talking about including Iraqis?

 EH>> Since pulling the troops out of Iraq will invariably cause far more
 EH>> Iraqi deaths than have died heretofore, what are they now wanting to
 EH>> include Iraqis in the total dead?

 EH>> Ed

 MG> Trying to follow their "logic" gives me a headache, I've given it up for
 MG> Thanksgiving. (After that I'll be giving it up for Kwansa) :)


Heh, you can then give it up for lent after the first of the year. ;-)

Ed

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