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Kevin Drum is numerically illiterate (none / 0) (#10)
by chemoelectric on Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 02:28:03 PM EST
Kevin Drum has trouble with quantitative reasoning. I noticed this a long while ago, early in the occupation, when he was easily tricked by the regime into believing there had been 'improvement' in the rate of US military personnel getting killed, and that there had been a significant change when there was absolutely none. Then, as now, a simple graph showed that the killed-rate was nearly constant, and there was nothing in the quality of the occupation on which to base optimism.

Basically, Drum's reactions were like those of someone who hears 'Hi! How are you?' and thinks this is a proposal of marriage. But that's actually standard behavior in the mass media, along with a lot else, so Drum still is better than the standard.

Seems overly harsh (none / 0) (#11)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 02:29:28 PM EST


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