Re: [OT] I need a reality check

--- Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:
>  
> I sometimes wonder a similar statistical thing when I hear of
> casualty reports. It's decidedly morbid, but the stateside mortality 
> rate for the age groups involved hardly would be zero, in spite of
the 
> relatively healthy, competent, and conscientious sample involved.
> 

I read an article in the early 1990's that the death rate for soldiers
in the 1991 Gulf War was less than the rate for them when stateside in
the preceeding years, big reason: 90% reduction in traffic fatalities.

J