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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-08-06 01:33 AM
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21. You must be from western Pennsylvania.."needs asked"?
Oy, gewalt. Does the floor need washed, too?

The "ratio" of wounded to dead, for those of us who pause to think before we spout off at the lip, says absolutely nothing about the intensity of the combat. Rather, it says something about the medical technoclogy, and that's it. If the "ratio of wounded to dead" is 2:1, with 2700 killed, that would mean that 5400 would be wounded. If it was 8:1 with 675 killed, that would be 5400 wounded. So what. The ratio of wounded to dead tells you nothing comparitively between conflicts, except the different ratio of wounded to dead. It is the absolute numbers in each conflict that tell you whether one is more intense than the other. In three and a half years in Vietnam,, over 15,000 Americans were killed and close to 170,000 wounded. In 3 and a half years in Iraq, 2740 Americans were killed and close to 20,000 wounded. That's it. there's your evidence. Comparisons are stupid given such numbers. The ratio of wounded to dead is completely inconmsequentlial, except as a demonstration of improved battlefield medical attention and medical dust-off.

Point being, you have no point at all, or no capacity to read data critically.

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