Faites vos jeux on dead Canadians; lose your bet
Further to Chris Taylor's post:
The poll results as of 2000 Eastern Time (sorry, can't do the link):
Now if you do the math, if those fatality rates continue without significant change, 41% of those responding to the poll think things for the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan will continue as they now are for another ten years (120 months). Idiots. Innumerates.
The poll results as of 2000 Eastern Time (sorry, can't do the link):
How high will the final Canadian death toll be in Afghanistan?Well, we've had 70 fatalities in the last almost 20 months since we've been at Kandahar (check the list at the right). That's three and a half dead a month (not taking into account the small number of fatalities before we went to Kandahar).
100 15%
150 20%
200 24%
500 41%
Total Votes for this Question: 1150
Now if you do the math, if those fatality rates continue without significant change, 41% of those responding to the poll think things for the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan will continue as they now are for another ten years (120 months). Idiots. Innumerates.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 8:25 p.m.
2 Comments:
Let's start a poll for every long weekend and guess how many drivers will be killed on highways in Canada.
Makes more sense - a typical long weekend kills 50 - 60 people in the country. A bad long weekend kills 70 - 80.
Puts six years in Afghanistan into some perspective
How about "The Torch" starting a pool. Readers could bet on the number of MSM journalists that will croak in the next, say, 12 months.
Second thought that might be dangerous - someone might try to rig the outcome.
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