The Cellar - View Single Post - 100,000 Iraqi Civilians have died in current war

russotto · 01-31-2005, 02:11 PM

To reiterate what UT said earlier, the actual figure, taking into account only sampling error, was 101,000 plus or minus 93,000. When your error bars are of the same magnitude as your data points, you don't have data; you have junk.

01-31-2005, 02:11 PM	#15
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	To reiterate what UT said earlier, the actual figure, taking into account only sampling error, was 101,000 plus or minus 93,000. When your error bars are of the same magnitude as your data points, you don't have data; you have junk.