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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Re: Shameful Statistics
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 00:24:41 EST
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>> 	Worldwide, there is one soldier for every 28 people.  There is only
>> one doctor for every 1050. Put another way, there are almost 40 times as many
>> soldiers in this world as doctors.
> 
> According to the ed psych text I read in college, the *average* IQ of
> the WWI soldier was something like 82.  Better they be soldiers than
> doctors, no?
	
	Is it just me, or is it only that people who are missing the point
are following up. (Hmm, what is the average IQ of a Usenet poster :-) )
	I'm not saying that there should be one doctor for every 28 people,
but isn't one soldier for every 28 people too much. Is there not a better
use of human resources than war, which consumes so much, and produces so 
little.
	Another statistic I like to quote is that the national debt is $2
Trillion.  The value of the missiles we have buried is $2.5 Trillion.  We
don't have a national debt.  That is the national investment, but unfortunately
it's resale value is worthless.
-- 

				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
           "... you can do anything you want, but not everything you want."