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Originally Posted by Hundebolg  |
And it's being disputed by
every single other study ever conducted on the issue. Including a bigger, better, more reliable Lancet study using the
exact same methodology as the original piece.
New Estimate of Violent Deaths Among Iraqis Is Lower - washingtonpost.com Quote:
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A new survey estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of the country...For the new study, however, surveyors visited 23 times as many places and interviewed five times as many households. Surveyors also got more outside supervision in the recent study; that wasn't possible in the spring of 2006 when the Johns Hopkins survey was conducted..."Overall, this is a very good study," said Paul Spiegel, a medical epidemiologist at the United Nations High Commission on Refugees in Geneva. "What they have done that other studies have not is try to compensate for the inaccuracies and difficulties of these surveys, triangulating to get information from other sources."
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And
at the idea of Juan Cole having any authority to comment on the authenticity of the survey. He's a sociologist and a historian, not a statistician, and I can guarantee you that there are at least a dozen people on this forum alone who are more qualified to address the survey than he.