Comments | onelastime_s: see for yourself

onelastime_s

see for yourself

Jul 16, 2005 16:32

I believe ...

it is tragic when we base
our beliefs on statistics
rather than real
experience and real
faces.

- today i saw faces.
if you think and justify in numbers, may you see the faces behind those numbers soon.

Comments 5

onlyoneconstant July 17 2005, 02:23:31 UTC

dont really know what you are talking about so i cant back you up or not....this would be an interesting discussion i think

m3talman July 17 2005, 04:21:31 UTC

uhhhhh bleh! hehe j/k. ok now seriously what?

plainwhitewalls July 17 2005, 09:07:01 UTC

i agree with that almost completely, i mean yeah when we don't know a lot about something statistics can give us an idea about it right? but isnt that just making your once objective view about this something biased from the get-go?

i think stereotypes work like statistics, only worse

ive seen a quote like that b4 in revolution on canvas, maybe did you read that and thats what inspired the post?

but yeah, this was a cool post it made me think, thanks

onelastime_s July 17 2005, 21:34:52 UTC

thanks for the comment.
no i haven't read that before, I was just thinking about some recent events and certain views that people have and why they have them.

how about... travelednole July 17 2005, 22:12:44 UTC

I like the last thing you write. though, i do agree that the statistics are useless without the experiences or at least the knowledge of the stories behind the numbers.

i mean who can grasp. . .

3.1 million HIV/AIDS deaths in 2003 (2.3 million of those are from Sub-Saharan Africa)

4.9 million people were infected with HIV in '03 (3.1 million of those are in Sub-Saharan Africa)

39.4 million people live with HIV/AIDS with 25.4 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.

(these #'s are from AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2004, UN-AIDS)