{"id":950,"date":"2004-06-23T05:02:23","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/how-poorly-we-count\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T05:02:23","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T10:02:23","slug":"how-poorly-we-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/how-poorly-we-count\/","title":{"rendered":"how poorly we count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to follow up on a <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the_bush_administrations_difficulty_with_counting.html\">previous<\/a> post here about the bush administrations trouble with counting,  today we found out just how bad the counting problem is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=5485225\">U.S. doubles its count of 2003 terrorism casualties<\/a> [reuters,  june 22,  2004]<\/div>\n<p>The administration said international terrorism killed 625 people last year, up from the 307 it reported on April 29 but below 2002&#8217;s 725 fatalities. It found 3,646 were wounded last year, above the 1,593 initially cited and the 2,013 in 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>3646\/1593 = 2.29<br \/>\n625\/307 = 2.04<\/p>\n<p>ok, so missing half the fatalities and injuries isn&#8217;t as bad as it could be, i guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>just keep the people that worked on this report away from the election this fall, mmmmmkay?<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2004.06.24):  a handy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/ct\/rls\/pgtrpt\/2003\/\" class=\"broken_link\">link<\/a> to the revisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to follow up on a previous post here about the bush administrations trouble with counting, today we found out just how bad the counting problem is&#8230;. U.S. doubles its count of 2003 terrorism casualties [reuters, june 22, 2004] The administration said international terrorism killed 625 people last year, up from the 307 it reported on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}