The much-quoted statistic that war deaths a century ago were 90 percent military and 10 percent civilian, while today the ratio is reversed, resulted from an error in a 1994 United Nations report that mistakenly compared deaths in World War I with refugees and wounded in the 1980s.
"The most significant statistic of the war is the ten-to-one advantage in aggregate artillery production (in total over a million large guns) enjoyed by the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States over the three Axis powers".
You've heard this statistic before: these wars are being fought by less than 1percentt of our population.
Among New York's four highest-paid position players, only Teixeira ranks among the team's top four nonpitchers in Wins Above Replacement (WAR), a statistic that measures how many victories a player contributes compared with a substitute from the bench or the minors.
The death toll for 2014 from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is just the latest grim statistic from years of war.
As an exercise in the recalculation of a statistic, "Counting the Civil War Dead" might be regarded by skeptics either as a form of what Thomas Kuhn [End Page 307] described as "normal science" or as a misleading evocation of numeracy that belies the constructed nature of statistics.
It's not the first time the government has sandbagged a statistic that paints the war on marijuana in a bad light.
One section of the textbook tells students that thousands of African Americans fought as confederate soldiers during the Civil War, a statistic that is not validated by mainstream historians.
WAR, the statistic that today is broadly viewed as the best measure of overall value, has only been widely used in the last 10 years or so, and has largely pushed out other measures such as runs created or win shares.
Tschirhart, a B-17 bombardier with 35 bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe under his belt, is now 91 and every time I hear or read the sad statistic that our World War II veterans are dying at a rate of more than 1,000 a day, I wince and value this friendship even more, just as I increasingly honor and treasure all our surviving World War II veterans.
