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Originally Posted by gamercube
I'm sorry, but I don't see the point of comparing the murder rate of ex-veterans to that of the general population.
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It's quite simple, really. Veterans are a subset of the general population as a whole. To assess if something they were exposed to (in this case, war and military training) influenced their murder rates, it makes perfect sense to compare them to the group as a whole. When you do, you see that veterans are less likely to be murderers, which runs completely contrary to the fearmongering the Times was trying for.
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The murder rate prevalent among the general population is mostly due to gangs, thugs, ex-cons and the mafia.
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Source?
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The murder rate of veterans is supposed to be lower.
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And the data supports this. The NYT does not because it doesn't address the data. Instead, it relies on anecdotal evidence to try to paint a different picture than that of reality.