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To: rktman

Is it true? It could be. If you allow me to choose the base starting period of the comparison, I can make any comparison say anything I want. For example, let’s say that ten people are killed today. . . and five were killed yesterday. . . but fifteen were killed last week. If I limit the starting period to the day before yesterday, I can truthfully say that the MURDER RATE HAS DOUBLED IN THE PAST TWO DAYS! simply by ignoring what went before a week ago.

Back in the 80s the Liberal media used this technique to try and erase the Reagan gains by setting the starting year they were comparing the growth to well before the Carter losses. . . 1976. This had the effect of making the phenomenal Reagan growth rates look anemic. Had they instead used the base year of 1982, when his policies first started taking effect, the growth rates were astounding.

So, using 2011 as a base... a year that was extremely LOW in mass murdering maniacs. . . gives them the way to totally distort the admittedly too many that occurred in 2012-2014 as a large increase. But had they used 1990, not so much.


22 posted on 10/17/2014 9:27:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

LOL! So you can prove glow-bull discombobulation is for real using that method as well? Me too. Typical liblogic and calculation techniques. :>}


23 posted on 10/17/2014 10:49:42 PM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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