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> What developing nations don't have is a way to get all the dead COUNTED This is one of the most ridiculous, preposterous and ... bigoted assertions I've hear
by scottlocklin 6y ago
> What developing nations don't have is a way to get all the dead COUNTED
This is one of the most ridiculous, preposterous and ... bigoted assertions I've heard all day: of course the Iranians can count the dead. They were probably capable of it 2500 years ago under Cyrus. They're certainly capable of it today[0]. You realize the Iranians make stuff like cars[1], aircraft[2], and have successfully hacked "advanced" US stealth drones[3], right? And you think they can't count dead people?
[0]https://irandataportal.syr.edu/census https://irandataportal.syr.edu/census
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Iran
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Aviation_Industries_Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Aviation_Industries_Organ...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
- tptacek 6y agoIn reality, where we can just look these statistics up rather than attempting to derive them from first principles based on axioms like "can build a car", Iran is one of a handful of countries with particularly low-quality death statistics. Regardless of how good Cyrus was at this, Iran's modern-day statistics are even lower than their upper-middle income status would predict. Maybe it was easier when there were fewer people living there.
- scottlocklin 6y agoPresumably you have some citation to back up "particularly low-quality death statistics" for the Iranians. I see no indication this is true, other than some people don't like the implications of what their death statistics say. It might be true, mind you: but citations needed.
- tptacek 6y agoYou presume correctly.