Lies, damn lies, and NYT's statistics

The NYT comes up with a charade of an article where they try to work up a Deer Hunter narrative: Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles.

Luckily Winds of Change is there to look at numbers, critically.

UPDATE, Monday 14 January
Entire NYT’s To Blame For Defaming Vets
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1.5 Million troops have cycled in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Crunching the numbers and controlling for the fact that over 90% of those deployed overseas are male. The average civilian population is 5 times more likely to commit a homicide than the veteran population, including those who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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