The chart of the day is from Tom Ricks in Sunday's Washington Post. It's not available on-line, which I consider an abomination. For now, here's a quote from the article; I'll ".pdf" the chart and post it Monday:
This chart shows a major improvement in the safety of driving around Iraq with the U.S. Army. In January 2007, about 1 in 5 convoys in Iraq was attacked. By the end of last year, that ratio had fallen to 1 in 33. By April, it was just 1 in 100.
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OBH in comments:
The NOFP Media Conundrum:
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Given.........C=Chances of getting attacked in Iraq
and...........N=Chances of Media Reporting News about Iraq
then
[Edited 6/6]
..........N = C*k
with k a constant.
4 comments:
...And yet the chances that this information will be picked up and repeated in your local paper, or on the Nightly News would be, oh,
....1 in 1000....
Says a lot when your chances of getting attacked in Iraq are *still* greater than your chances of hearing any sort of good news about it, don't it?
Hey, maybe we're onto something here:
The NOFP Media Conundrum:
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Given.........C=Chances of getting attacked in Iraq
and...........N=Chances of Media Reporting News about Iraq
then
....... C*N = k
with k a constant.
.
OBH:
I LOVE it.
Dammit, I got that backwards.
The formula would be
.......N = C*k
Argh. Fiddled with the terminology I was using (was thinking N==Good News) and inadvertently didn't adjust the formula correctly...
The obvious intended meaning is that as C goes up and down, so does N. The inverse relationship of C*N=k doesn't display that behavior, but the opposite.
DOH!!!
Prease fix.
Done.
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