If we were comparing numbers of robberies over time then we would want to know the base of stores in order to make a fair comparison. 3 robberies on 10 stores takes on a much different meaning than 3 robberies on a base of 1000 stores. That's also why there are murder rates
The article showed numbers of military deaths over time. So it is indeed relevant to consider the size of the military over time and compute the percentage of people who were killed. This provides an apples/apples comparison and indicates whether the death rate is going up or not.
I'm sorry you are so defensive and mad over this.
I’m neither mad, nor defensive. I’ve made my point. You just don’t understand it. You also don’t understand the point of the original post. Yet, you managed to talk down to the poster for being ignorant about statistics, when it is you who doesn’t understand the analysis. That is what irritated me. If you want, I can come up with 15 different “denominators” for the data that are different than the ones you proposed. You suggest that yours is the only right way to analyze the data, and that simply isn’t the case. It never is.
I’ll be as simple as I can, one more time. You are looking a different analysis that the original poster. Not better, not worse, just different. If you can’t see that, you have no business commenting on or even using statistics. Applying statistics is more than just doing the math, you know.
What if you measure 3 robberies against all stores, or better yet those military lives lost against the entire population of the United States during that time?
but we can’t do that can we? It must be done in such a way as to make the numbers produce a certain negative result, that result being that the loss of these servicemen and women was avoidable, unnecessary and unwarranted.
and these deaths were, just as the previous losses were.
If no one served in the military there would be no deaths in the service, that is a fairly simple equation, but here is an even simpler if they weren’t trying to kill us we wouldn’t be there at all.
Try to remember for once that the people were are fighting against promised us that they would not stop until the streets of our cities were awash in our blood and they killed us all.