News Is the War in Iraq leading to a communist takeover?

[Adam]

http://www.ccmep.org/us_bombing_watch.html
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/editorial_june1203.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3450.htm

Now if you'll drop the smart-Rs attitude and try reading for a change, you might learn something.

 

[Nereid]

Thanks Adam. However, for Afghanistan, it seems the data is scattered among each individual PR (many of which can be found - individually - in other sites). I was wondering if there was something like the 'iraq body count' for afghanistan, ideally with links to PRs on each incident.

Adrian: Why would lots of unreliable data be better than one piece of unreliable data?

In a word, because there are techniques of taking those estimates and combining them to produce a meta-estimate which has considerably greater reliability than any individual one. The same principle is used in meta-analyses of drugs, to give just one example.