TrendMacro conversation with Wharton's Abraham Wyner on fraudulent Gaza casualty statistics and political bias
Unreliable sourcing, illegitimate categorization, propagandistic motives -- and numbers that are statistical nonsense even in their own terms.
Update to Strategic View
Wharton Professor Wyner shows that statistics on casualties in Gaza are unreliable at best. They are produced by a government that is overtly running a propaganda war. The statistics are published so rapidly and frequently they cannot possibly have been gathered with any rigor. They show too much regularity in their rate of change, in a situation in which events of necessity are very different day to day. They show no correlation between female casualties and child casualties, yet those certainly must be highly correlated. Yet they show almost perfect correlation between female and male casualties, when those must certainly be highly discorrelated. Summations of casualties as between men, women and children -- and combatants and non-combatants -- are internally inconsistent. The United Nations has finally questioned the veracity of the numbers, yet media and politicians continue to quote them with no health warning, and have done nothing to take responsibility for unquestioned reporting in the past. Seeming authorities, most recently The Lancet journal, continue to argue for the veracity of the statistics, without even mentioning critiques like that of Professor Wyner.