Today's New York Times carries this correction (third item):

[darrels joy]

Today's New York Times carries this correction (third item):

An article on Feb. 9 about the military's recruitment of Hispanics referred incompletely to the belief of some critics that Hispanics in the Iraq war and blacks in the Vietnam War accounted for a disproportionate number of casualties. Statistics do not support the belief. Hispanics, who are about 14 percent of the population, accounted for about 11 percent of the military deaths in Iraq through Dec. 3, 2005. About 12.5 percent of the military dead in Vietnam were African-Americans, who made up about 13. 5 percent of the general population during the war years. The error was pointed out in an e-mail in February; the correction was delayed for research after a lapse at The Times.

[Advisor]

Research or a debate on potential methods of parsing the statistics? Old legends die hard.

[Seascamp]

It?s interesting that the Gray Lady always uses the public as their quality assurance methodology. I guess we?re fortunate that they don?t build bridges or airplanes.
Good gawd, if I ever saw a turbine with the NYT logo I?d burn flooring hauling buns away from a rig like that. Two months to correct malicious BS? I?d call that maliciousness squared to the Nth. Five minutes to drop a plop, then two months to say ?Hey, we dropped a plop?, get real NYT. They get the CBS Busy Bill, Danny and Mary award, for sure.

Scamp

[Boats]

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