[lbo-talk] Congrats DD

[Carl Remick]

D-squared is given the last word on the Iraq body count controversy in the 
Wash Post's "World Opinion Roundup" blog today, which starts off expressing 
high skepticism toward the Lancet study.  Well, *in effect* DD gets the last 
word, since the following passage appears right before the jump (i.e., 
before the clickable message "continue reading this post"):

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Defending the Data

But the study has its defenders. ... "The numbers do add up," said Daniel 
Davies, a stockbroker and blogger for the Guardian. He argued that the 
sample of 1,849 households interviewed by Iraqi doctors working for the JHU 
research team was as large as that used by political pollsters.

"The question that this study was set up to answer was: as a result of the 
invasion, have things got better or worse in Iraq? And if they have got 
worse, have they got a little bit worse or a lot worse... The results speak 
for themselves," Davies wrote. "In the 18 months before the invasion, the 
sample reported 82 deaths, two of them from violence. In the 39 months since 
the invasion, the sample households had seen 547 deaths, 300 of them from 
violence."

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<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/>

Carl

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