How Statisticians Reveal The True Death Toll Of War | Tom Whipple
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"It's quietly the statisticians doing this incredibly hard work... to reveal stuff that no one wants to be revealed." The Times’s science editor Tom Whipple explains the remarkable statistical technique used to estimate civilian death tolls in conflicts, including Ukraine and Gaza, revealing how independent researchers uncover the scale of human loss when official figures cannot be trusted. Tom Whipple was speaking to Ayesha Hazarika on Times Radio. Listen live every Friday, 1-4pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
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