Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Keeping Us Confused

That's the name of the game.  Throw out multiple sets of numbers and we'll eventually get tired of trying to figure out which ones are accurate. Excuse me, but I think there are a few, fearless, folks out there who are more tenacious than that...


Pentagon and Petraeus’ casualty data ‘differ significantly.’



In a report today on the Pentagon’s methods for determining sectarian killings in Iraq, the Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung writes that “apparent contradictions are relatively easy to find in the flood of bar charts and trend lines the military produces.” For instance, the numbers in the Pentagon’s quarterly Iraq report released last week “differ significantly” [...]



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