The people in positions of power in the USA mislead the public using bogus metric cherry picking. Reminder to not trust any elite authority telling you the "truth". This goes for climate change, wars, and scientific truths like genetics and intelligence.
>Why doesn't Trump trust his own intelligence agencies
“And this went on and on for two reasons,” the NSC official said, according to the Washington Post. “to make everyone involved look good, and to make it look like the troops and resources were having the kind of effect where removing them would cause the country to deteriorate.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/12/09/afghanistan-war-metrics-were-manipulated-to-highlight-battlefield-success-according-to-bombshell-wapo-report/
“It was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture,” the NSC official said in a 2016 government interview, according to the Washington Post’s government documents.
“The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war," the NSC official said, the Washington Post reported.
The Washington Post obtained nearly 2,000 pages of interviews and comments made by government officials, diplomats and military commanders regarding the state of the Afghan war.
Let's discuss in this scientific thread the use of metric cherrypicking by elites to frame things such that they can pass off bullshit.
>Why doesn't Trump trust his own intelligence agencies
“And this went on and on for two reasons,” the NSC official said, according to the Washington Post. “to make everyone involved look good, and to make it look like the troops and resources were having the kind of effect where removing them would cause the country to deteriorate.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/12/09/afghanistan-war-metrics-were-manipulated-to-highlight-battlefield-success-according-to-bombshell-wapo-report/
“It was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture,” the NSC official said in a 2016 government interview, according to the Washington Post’s government documents.
“The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war," the NSC official said, the Washington Post reported.
The Washington Post obtained nearly 2,000 pages of interviews and comments made by government officials, diplomats and military commanders regarding the state of the Afghan war.
Let's discuss in this scientific thread the use of metric cherrypicking by elites to frame things such that they can pass off bullshit.
