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He says near the beginning that only 832 people died on Titanic, which is plainly untrue and made me stop reading because I felt I could no longer trust anythin
by windowshopping 1y ago
He says near the beginning that only 832 people died on Titanic, which is plainly untrue and made me stop reading because I felt I could no longer trust anything the author was saying without fact checking it. I mean that's a really basic thing to get wrong.
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- anonymous_user9 1y agoThat's the number of passenger deaths, not total deaths. It's pretty close to the sum of passenger deaths in the wikipedia article on the Titanic [1], 818. According to that article, the total death count is unclear, so the discrepancy seems acceptable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Survivors_and_victims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Survivors_and_victims