Aurora/Acadia flexible fuzzy numbers
  by KEYSAL@aol.com

http://salon.com/letters/corrections/index.html
In his last column, David Horowitz wrote that 10 percent of the female
sailors on a ship named the Aurora became pregnant en route to the Persian
Gulf during Desert Storm. The ship was actually the Acadia, and 36 women were
sent home because of pregnancy at some time during its seven-month stint in
the Gulf, not en route to the conflict. The Navy has long disputed the 10
percent figure, explaining that 14 of the women were pregnant when they were
assigned to the repair ship, and that 450 women, not 360 as widely reported,
served on the Acadia during its seven months in the Gulf. The 22 pregnancies
that actually began while the ship was on duty came to 5 percent, according
to the Washington Times. Salon regrets the errors.
[Correction made 06/28/01]
 

What makes this an even more interesting statistic is that  while according to the
Washington Times the rate is 5 percent., a search of "USS Acadia Gulf War Women"
spits out web sites containing various percentages concerning this ship and its statistics.

Suzanne Fields  of Jewish World Review seems to think its 31 percent
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields051500.asp

<< The USS Acadia and the USS Yellowstone, the "love boats'' of the Gulf War,
became joke mills for stand-up comics everywhere when 31 percent of the
sailors on them came home expecting more than a shore leave. >>
 

Some guy named Michael who feels men are also oppressed states it was 40 percent citing
Farrell, Warren. 1993. The Myth of Male Power. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mbcollin/oppress.html
 

 <<The few women who make the choice to enter the military are still not
sharing the same risks as the men. In the gulf war crisis, 375 men lost their
lives while only 15 women died (Farrell 1993: 129). When the USS Acadia was
preparing for deployment, 40% of the women became pregnant and subsequently
were not required to go into combat(Farrell 1993: 132).>>

So the question remains which is correct?

Washington Times              5%
David Horowitz with         10%
Suzanne Fields                  31%
Michael quoting Farrel       40%

Where will it stop?  When it reaches 80% I'm selling.

ha ha

This is starting to sound like a vast right wing "Con and Piracy" of the
truth. Its like they have all been caught hook line and sinker the same fish
story that keeps getting bigger everytime its told.
 
 
 

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