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#GAZA: The suspect fraudulent statistics of the Hamas Health Ministry. Profesor Abraham Wyner UPENN WHARTON Professor of Statistics and Data Science. Director of Undergraduate Program in Statistics and Data Science Faculty Co-Director of the Wharton Spo

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#GAZA: The suspect fraudulent statistics of the Hamas Health Ministry. Profesor Abraham Wyner UPENN WHARTON Professor of Statistics and Data Science. Director of Undergraduate Program in Statistics and Data Science
Faculty Co-Director of the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative
Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CBS CVS, I am the world. I'm John Bachelor with Malcolm Honeline Conference of

0:27.6

Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations and we welcome Professor Abraham

0:31.8

Weiner of the University of Pennsylvania, writing most recently at the tablet.

0:37.0

How the Gaza Ministry of Health fakes casualty numbers subhead.

0:42.0

The evidence is in their own poor. Fakes casualty numbers, subhead.

0:42.9

The evidence is in their own poorly fabricated figures.

0:46.8

Professor, a very good evening to you.

0:48.4

There's a photograph accompanying your piece in the tablet of what we presume to be sympathetic present. your war. Your article, however, takes us in a different direction. What do we need to know about

1:05.5

what appears to be distortions of fact? Good evening to you.

1:09.8

Good evening to you.

1:10.8

It's a great question. I'll start by saying what has been said and why what has

1:17.3

been said is wrong and why it's so important to address that. So what has been said

1:21.6

is that there's over 30,000 casualties, Palestinian casualties in Gaza in the past war and the ongoing war.

1:30.0

And more importantly, I think, is that 30,000 of those 30,000, over 70% of them are women and children.

1:38.0

And what this has done is it's created the impression in the public and the media widespread that Israel is failing in its mission to attack Hamas and defeat Hamas and what they are succeeding in, it's unintentional, but this is the claim, is essentially murdering

1:58.9

civilians with no amount of proportionate military advantage.

2:05.9

So this is what's been said.

2:08.2

Israel of course reports that they have actually killed

2:10.4

13,000 Hamas fighters.

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And in fact, somewhat recently, Hamas has admitted

2:16.4

that they've lost 6,000 of their own fighters.

2:19.1

So as a statistician, I hear this information, and I realize that something has to be wrong.

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