numbers problems
Justin Schwartz
jkschw at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 26 09:53:45 PDT 2001
>Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:39:11
>
>>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>>
>>Those were not unreasonable fears at the time. It's a miracle that the
>>tally
>>was as low as 5000--if ut's "only" 2000 just amazing. jks
>
>I think that the wild speculation that BDeL and many others engaged
>concerning the WTC casualty total was grossly irresponsible, since it
>served
>to feed public panic. When nobody knows how many people died, the
>appropriate answer re casualties is, "Nobody knows how many people died."
>
>Carl
Irresponsible is not the same thing as unreasonable. It may be irresponsible
to offer a reasonable estimate or guess. And no one was thinking clearly at
the time. jks
>
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