I just love the implied racism here where America is capable of running intelligence disinformation campaigns while dirty Iranians could never be so clever. That’s why every statistic that comes out of western media sources can’t be trusted, but everything else can.
Beyond that obvious confirmation bias, there is almost no difference in how populations react to news of a few thousand deaths and thirty thousand deaths. Humans just don’t process big numbers that well on an emotional level. Intelligence organizations know that. Thirty deaths can easily have more of an impact because we can imagine it being 30 people we know.
I just love the implied racism here where America is capable of running intelligence disinformation campaigns while dirty Iranians could never be so clever. That’s why every statistic that comes out of western media sources can’t be trusted, but everything else can.
Beyond that obvious confirmation bias, there is almost no difference in how populations react to news of a few thousand deaths and thirty thousand deaths. Humans just don’t process big numbers that well on an emotional level. Intelligence organizations know that. Thirty deaths can easily have more of an impact because we can imagine it being 30 people we know.