How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers
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Second of all it makes vague assumptions about distributions without clarifying or even justifying why it should have a different distribution. This is straight from the playbook of Trump’s election denialism where some variation of election results was somehow proof of tampering[1].
With statistics you can find any results you want if you look at limited enough data from a large enough pool, and you can find any abnormality you want by giving unrealistic expectations. This is why you need to clarify which distribution you expect, and—more importantly—justify it by pointing at other examples from similar pools. This is never done here, which is why I call it pseudo-statistical nonesence. Stating it is abnormal is not enough, even when you provide some fancy box plots to do so.
A classic example of inflated Hamas statistics from their Ministry of Truth is the hospital "bombing" that was actually a failed Hamas rocket. If you look at the time between the explosion and when they announced that "500 people were dead", it was not physically possible to have gone through the site, actually counted casualties, and determined how many are dead and wounded.
Hamas' strategy is to win public sympathy for a legitimate response to their terrorism, and this is how they do it; grossly inflate their casualty numbers and pretend like they are the victims, when in fact, they are not.
To save you time, I’d like to inform you that this has been done, and the conclusion is that the count published by the ministry of health is believable. But again you are free to prove me wrong and search for these abnormalities.
I will not engage on the question whether the human caused climate change is real or whether the 2020 US presidential election results were fraudulent. I take it as self evident that any arguments to the contrary are indeed conspiracy theories with no basis in reality.