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Les Roberts's new study
“Our data suggests that the (March 2003) shock-and-awe campaign was very careful, that a lot of the targets were genuine military targets.” (Les Roberts, explaining Lancet 2006 findings) L… more →
Dissident 93
Les Roberts's new study
dissident93 wrote 2 months ago: “Our data suggests that the (March 2003) shock-and-awe campaign was very careful, that a lot o … more →
Pope of debunkers
dissident93 wrote 9 months ago: Tim Lambert runs a “science blog” which at times successfully debunks rightwing punditry … more →
Violating "fundamental standards of science"?
dissident93 wrote 9 months ago: In what ABC News calls a “highly unusual rebuke”, the American Association for Public Op … more →
Journal of Peace Research award
dissident93 wrote 11 months ago: The Journal of Peace Research Article of the Year Award has gone to Neil F. Johnson, Michael Spagat, … more →
Medialens’s embarrassing archive (part 7) - betraying Monbiot
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: In 2003 George Monbiot wrote privately to the editors of Medialens about his colleagues at the Guard … more →
Misrepresenting "science"
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: “Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation” (Project Censored) “I don … more →
Medialens’s embarrassing archive (part 6)
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: —Offending the wrong people— Medialens’s fourth “alert” attacking Iraq … more →
Medialens’s embarrassing archive (part 5)
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: Medialens prompts its readers to send emails to journalists and others. The Medialens editors then c … more →
Medialens’s embarrassing archive (part 4)
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: “There is no ‘campaign’, Bob” Medialens have always denied running a campaig … more →
Medialens’s embarrassing archive (part 3)
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: Presumably anxious to present their campaign (against IBC) in a positive light, the editors of Media … more →
Rigorous LCB for the expectation of a positive r.v.
yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: A paper of mine was published in the open-access Electronic Journal of Statistics. It proposes a met … more →
Misrepresenting Iraq Body Count
dissident93 wrote 1 year ago: David Edwards and David Cromwell (editors of Media Lens) have published several articles attacking I … more →
ORB vs. IFHS in U.S. Media
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: On January 28th, the British polling firm Opinion Research Business (ORB) released an update (via De … more →
IFHS - "Violent deaths"
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: The main discrepancy between findings in the IFHS paper and those of Burnham et al. is not in the to … more →
IFHS - Accounting for under-reporting
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: Justifying the factor used to account for under-reporting of deaths The IFHS sample is a very low mo … more →
IFHS - Effective sample size
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: An explanation of the concept of effective sample size is here. This post applies this concept to a … more →
IFHS - Missing clusters and extrapolation using IBC data
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: Missing clusters The IFHS surveyors did not visit all of the clusters in their sample. Those areas t … more →
IFHS - Population/sample size correlation
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: According to the description of the sampling method of IFHS (both in the paper itself and in the sup … more →
5 problems with the science of the IFHS study
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yoramgat wrote 1 year ago: Reviewing the IFHS study, I found 5 problems with the science of the study. I believe that taken tog … more →
