War and Statistics

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One thing that gets me is that while the US is at near constant war with multiple other countries, has been constantly at war since before some adults today were born and is constantly trying to instigate coups as well, there's that statistic that there's less war today than at any other time in history.  It just reminds me about that saying about lies and statistics.  This is not to discount the value of statistics, but rather to say that sometimes I think things are not accepted for their actual rigor, but because they become repeated so often by well known and 'reputable' people, that they become believed without any kind of examination of where the numbers come from and how biases and lack of information can shape this kind of assessment.  Numbers do not lie, but people lie about numbers all the time.