Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:21 pm
typically, the hopkins method of polling has a very unstable statistical variance of 10-130%
for one last year, by the same method of the poll, many people reported their neighbors as dead, when it was discovered they moved. Others admitted they were lying and had hoped that the people coming to take the poll would give them money or other compensation for "their lost family members." Others simply expressed nothing but disgust for the whole thing, and simply refused to answer or shouted insults or conflicting numbers.
sadly, we may never know at what cost this action comes, and to be honest the only way to get more certain numbers are methods that most people can't stomach, as they bring you intimately in touch with the dead. but I know that thousands and thousands of Iraqis are doing their best to make their country a thing to be proud of and defeat the extremists who seek to make their country part of a terrorist regime.
no doubt many died, but even worse, they highlight the 655000 number, but fail to mention 69+% of those reported were at the hands of the militant jihadists. That means over 450,000 of them were at the hands of the enemy we are trying to defeat, and others want us to retreat from.
for one last year, by the same method of the poll, many people reported their neighbors as dead, when it was discovered they moved. Others admitted they were lying and had hoped that the people coming to take the poll would give them money or other compensation for "their lost family members." Others simply expressed nothing but disgust for the whole thing, and simply refused to answer or shouted insults or conflicting numbers.
sadly, we may never know at what cost this action comes, and to be honest the only way to get more certain numbers are methods that most people can't stomach, as they bring you intimately in touch with the dead. but I know that thousands and thousands of Iraqis are doing their best to make their country a thing to be proud of and defeat the extremists who seek to make their country part of a terrorist regime.
no doubt many died, but even worse, they highlight the 655000 number, but fail to mention 69+% of those reported were at the hands of the militant jihadists. That means over 450,000 of them were at the hands of the enemy we are trying to defeat, and others want us to retreat from.