Silly Little Country

Innumeracy on CNN

Surprise! There is a wonderfully witless feature on CNN right now about discharges from the US military for being gay. Apparently one third of the dischargees are women. And of course they record later that 'most of the dischargees are women'. Hmmm.
Nowhere is there a discussion of what percentage of men versus women in the services are in fact gay. It's a lot more fun to impute other prejudices.
Oh hey they also have stupid innumerate assertions about the ethnic origins of the dischargees.
Disclosure: I don't see why gays should be discharged at all but that IS Obama's current policy. I do despise utterly brain-dead reporting.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 2:34 PM