The author of the following article, a professor of statistics, computes the cumulative deaths in Gaza over 15 days and claims it "is increasing with almost metronomical linearity”, and hence “this regularity is almost surely not real.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbersThis level of professional incompetence can only be explained by ideological drive.
The cumulative counts of i.i.d. samples will almost surely be linear, even for very high variance:
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/a-note-on-how-the-gaza-ministry-of-health-fakes-casualty-numbers/There's nothing here that suggests manipulation, specially over a period of only 15 days — which gives us very little information.
This is from a professor of statistics.
Aerial pictures confirm the absolute devastation of Gaza.
More than 30,000 bombs have been dropped, including hundreds of 2,000 pound bombs.
We all see the images.
His genocide denial hinges on the R² value of a linear regression...
Instances such as this illustrate very well what Chomsky wrote long ago: Intellectuals are predominantly tools of the power centers.
See “The Responsibility of Intellectuals”, by Noam Chomksy, here:
https://chomsky.info/19670223/
