{"id":1340,"date":"2004-03-03T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T02:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/does_faulty_log"},"modified":"2004-03-03T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T02:42:15","slug":"does_faulty_log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Does Faulty Logic Rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the important matter of US military casualties in Iraq, it really does matter how you look at the data. Any death is at all is a tragedy, but you don’t get a workable understanding of a situation by saying, “It’s getting worse and worse!” when it is manifestly coming under control.<\/p>\n

The Commissar<\/a> has posted two graphs showing American military casualties since the beginning of the war in Iraq. I would like you to view both and make up your mind which best represents how our soldiers are doing.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the “glass is half empty” crowd should probably skip that link and find some bad news to rejoice in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the important matter of US military casualties in Iraq, it really does matter how you look at the data. Any death is at all is a tragedy, but you don’t get a workable understanding of a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1826],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-lC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}