Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Fuzzy Math (cont)

What defines a killing in Iraq as sectarian?

At the end of the day, he said, "it's an analyst making an analyst's call."

So, theoretically, if you wanted to report that the number of sectarian deaths is declining, you could persuade the analyst looking over the deaths & classifying them to change his methodology so the numbers go down...

2 comments:

Corms said...

Exactly. Frinstance being killed by a car bomb in Iraq? It doesn't count. Neither does being shot in the front of the head.

Smiff said...

This is surprising how?