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Meaningless statistics : are there more suicides or are combat deaths declining ?
by jmnicolas 12y ago
Meaningless statistics : are there more suicides or are combat deaths declining ?
- 001sky 12y agohttp://www.afhsc.mil/documents/pubs/msmrs/2014/v21_n10.pdf#Page=14 http://www.afhsc.mil/documents/pubs/msmrs/2014/v21_n10.pdf#P... see para #1, page 2
- teraflop 12y agoIt's meaningful regardless of whether one number is increasing or the other is decreasing. If, as I suspect, the military spends vastly more time and money trying to prevent combat deaths than trying to help suicidal soldiers and veterans, then this statistic suggests that their priorities are out of whack.
- pmalynin 12y agoHow is it out-of-whack? For the sake of the argument if they have $1 billion to spend and if spending it on combat deaths prevention saves say 1000 people, while spending it on suicide reduction gets you 10 then it seems very reasonable to spend money on decreasing combat deaths.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoBoth. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/feb/01/us-military-suicides-trend-charts http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/feb/01/us-mili...