100,000 Iraqi Civilians have died in current war

[Undertoad]

Well Madame Albright took credit for 500,000 deaths during sanctions so perhaps we are seeing an improvement here.

The paper that they published carried some caveats. For instance, the researchers admitted that many of the dead might have been combatants. They also acknowledged that the true number of deaths could fall anywhere within a range of 8,000 to 194,000, a function of the researchers' having extrapolated their survey to a country of 25 million.

Why don't they just make the number up? It will have the same impact.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Well Madame Albright took credit for 500,000 deaths during sanctions so perhaps we are seeing an improvement here.



Why don't they just make the number up? It will have the same impact.

You probably didn't read the entire article. It went on to describe the sampling techniques used, and how they were well within the criterea for sociological/scientific studies. The article also noted that this same researcher was the one who made the estimates of the numbers killed in the Rwandan Civil War and that these estimates were widely accepted as being accurate. The 100,000 figure is within a 95% confidence level of being the correct one.