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Re: by Qem on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:08PM (#39631424)
> One possible explanation is that journalists have a much higher probability of being close to where the fighting is

Not closer than the people actually doing the fight. Look at this plot: https://imgur.com/a/SWNSYOn

For the curve of journalists killed to bend this way, my rough estimates point it's necessary for the journalist have ~3x the odds of being targeted when compared to a Hamas fighter, or 75x more when compared to random Gaza inhabitant (~75:1 vs. ~25:1 odds against random person). I posted in detail my estimation method here, but it got downvoted and now sits close to the bottom of this discussion, but you can read it here:

Part I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603300

Part II: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603311

Part III (Python source code): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39603322

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