Saturday, January 08, 2005

You can prove anything with statistics


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A handful of interesting, but unrelated, statistics from last week ...
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Amount of aid called for by the UN for tsunami disaster relief: $1bn
Current projected US spend on Iraq conflict: $200bn
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Estimated number of Iraqi insurgents, per Iraq interim administration: 300,000
Number of troops required to neutralise 300,000 insurgents: 3,000,000
Number of US troops in Iraq: 150,000
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Estimated number of people killed by tsunami: 165,000
Time taken for 165,000 Africans to die from AIDS at current death rates: 19 days
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