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To: 91B
Yes, and that would be fine if we were talking about mathematics, but since we aren't that statement is along the same totally incoherent lines as all the other "arguments" you have been making so far.

You're not consistent.

Of course, you were the one who made an issue of power steering-a tacit admission that females would have difficulty controlling a vehicle without it-now you blithely dismiss it because it doesn't support your "theories".

No, Chief Joe said she wasn't able to drive the truck. That's a crazy assumption to make, especially if it has power steering, which it probably does.

I realize that this is another of your theories, but it is completely baseless, you do realize that when you advance a proposition you are required to provide some support for that "theory" don't you?

I can discuss whatever I want using whatever logic I want. If you don't like it, that's tough.

In fact, you don't have theories, because theories can be disproven through reasoning and evidence.

Then prove them wrong.

BTW appending lol to every other statement is not a substitute for making rational arguments.

LOL means I find your hysterics funny.

Congratulations to Kenseth on winning the points championship.

Fellow midwesterner!

402 posted on 11/11/2003 3:49:42 AM PST by #3Fan
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To: #3Fan
At what point am I not consistent? You brought up "mathematics" as if that subject had anything to do with the price of tea in China.

Those statistics I cited-and you completely ignored due to the fact that they run counter to your "theoies"-aren't theoretical in the slightest. What they show is that it is more expensive to maintain females in the service than it is to maintain males. If we recruited only males the extra expense incurred by females in the service would be gone. You totally glossed over the fact that females are almost twice as likely as males to leave the service-and that that fact coupled with the fact that every troop who leaves service early doubles the cost to recruit and train a servicemember shows that it is more expensive to have females in the service than it does to recruit only males.

Of course you have also demonstrated that you clearly lack reading comprehension skills. The fact that Women had 2.5 times the rate of injuries as men and 3.9 times the rate of injuries resulting in hospitalization isn't a number in the single digits so much as it demonstrates that women are 250% and 390% more likely than men to suffer injuries or be hospitalized. The fact that Royal Navy females are eight times more likely (RR = 7.92, 95% CI = 3.03–20.66) and Army females seven times more likely (RR = 6.53, 95% CI = 2.60–16.42) than Royal Air Force females to be medically discharged on account of injury means that they are roughly 800% and 700% more likely to suffer injury than their counterparts. You gloss over the fact that females miss time due to pregnancy and the fact that almost half leave the service early.

You don't deny that a lack of power steering is a tacit admission that the task would be more difficult for a female. You don't use anything other than your theories to support your arguments at all.

I'm tired of guys like you deciding that their theories have as much merit as the cold hard facts and that then guys like me have to suffer the consequences.

407 posted on 11/11/2003 11:35:00 AM PST by 91B (Golly it's hot.)
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