100,000 Iraqi Civilians have died in current war

[Undertoad]

Under normal combat situations there will be two injured for every one dead. Under bombing situations the ratio could be higher. Where are the 200,000 injured? Where are the hospitals full of crying patients with missing limbs? Where are the photo ops for the insurgents? How could such a thing be covered up?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Under normal combat situations there will be two injured for every one dead. Under bombing situations the ratio could be higher.

Under "no medical facilities" situations the ratio could be lower.

[russotto]

To reiterate what UT said earlier, the actual figure, taking into account only sampling error, was 101,000 plus or minus 93,000. When your error bars are of the same magnitude as your data points, you don't have data; you have junk.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Originally Posted by russotto

To reiterate what UT said earlier, the actual figure, taking into account only sampling error, was 101,000 plus or minus 93,000. When your error bars are of the same magnitude as your data points, you don't have data; you have junk.

You don't understand statistical sampling. Here's a rough graph of what the results show. The probability (0 - 1) of any given number being the correct one is a point on the y-axis, the number of casualties (1 - 300,000) is a point on the x-axis. When graphed, you get the following bell shaped curve (sorry it ain't prettier, but I've got work to do):