How Polls are Taken
This was interesting, how a recent poll arrived at 655k dead iraqis:
So how has the U.S. media reported on these shocking-albeit-necessarily-imprecise findings, based on door-to-door surveys in 18 provinces, by the experts trained in this kind of thing? The actual methods included obtaining data by eight Iraqi physicians during a survey of 1,849 Iraqi families -- 12,801 people -- in 47 neighborhoods of 18 regions across the country. The researchers based the selection of geographical areas on population size, not on the level of violence. How strict were their standards? They asked for death certificates to prove claims -- and got them in 92 percent of the cases. Even so, the authors say that the number could be anywhere from 426,000 to 800,000.
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The other sad part is that these news never make it to the main stream media in the u.s. As the article says, neither the pentagon nor the mainstream media have made much attempt to make their own counts-- it;s just not that important to anyone....
maybe becuase there are people like this guy who said that the eye of mordor was away from the u.s. and focusing in iraq and he never wants the eye to come back to u.s.
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