British death rate in Iraq 'worse than US'

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Source: The Sunday Telegraph

The British military death rate in Iraq is proportionally worse than that of the US, for the first time since the 2003 invasion, it was reported today.

British troops were being killed at a proportionally greater rate than their American allies in recent months, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

It cited analysis by Professor Sheila Bird, the vice-president of the Royal Statistical Society, who studied British and American fatalities in Iraq from May 2006 to June 2007.

Britain has 5500 troops in Iraq and lost 23 soldiers between February 5 and June 24 this year.

The US has 165,000 troops there and suffered 463 fatalities over the same period – a proportionally lower toll, the newspaper said.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22077797-23109,00.html

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1. Scary but, technically, too small a sampling -- thank god -- over too short a time

ANY number of any nationality -- British, Australian, Iraqi or American -- is too many.

[BootinUp]

2. I think you would have to see

how much the data varies month to month to say its not a good sampling.

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3. But the sampling itself is too small to predict a trend now, is what I'm saying

First we need to determine the direction and then go to variation.

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4. It's the Iraqi death rate in Iraq that's more unsettling.