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**Gosxjqum** · 09-12-2011, 08:09 PM

The goal of the idea that you shouldn’t compare Apples to Oranges is that the two fruit are dissimilar in almost every way.
In discussing Terrorist Attacks, she specified a distinct number of attacks, and a reasonably rounded number of victims. Those are the Apples.
In discussing AIDS/HIV, she completely failed to state how many people have been diagnosed with AIDS/HIV – not even an approximate number - and yet gave a wildly generalized single number of victims who perished of the disease. Those are the Oranges.
If she had checked this site: http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/aids, she could have stated the following:
“…AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among people aged 25 - 44 in the United States, down from number one in 1995. About 25 million people worldwide have died from this infection since the start of the epidemic, and in 2006, there were approximately 40 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS.…”

Something along these lines would have resulted in her comparing Apples to Apples, even though there still would have been some hyperbole in her statement.

But a comparison by the very definition points out similarities or differences thus one could legitimately compare apples and oranges. :-)

09-12-2011, 08:09 PM	#10
Gosxjqum Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	The goal of the idea that you shouldn’t compare Apples to Oranges is that the two fruit are dissimilar in almost every way. In discussing Terrorist Attacks, she specified a distinct number of attacks, and a reasonably rounded number of victims. Those are the Apples. In discussing AIDS/HIV, she completely failed to state how many people have been diagnosed with AIDS/HIV – not even an approximate number - and yet gave a wildly generalized single number of victims who perished of the disease. Those are the Oranges. If she had checked this site: http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/aids, she could have stated the following: “…AIDS is the fifth leading cause of death among people aged 25 - 44 in the United States, down from number one in 1995. About 25 million people worldwide have died from this infection since the start of the epidemic, and in 2006, there were approximately 40 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS.…” Something along these lines would have resulted in her comparing Apples to Apples, even though there still would have been some hyperbole in her statement. But a comparison by the very definition points out similarities or differences thus one could legitimately compare apples and oranges. :-)
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