I find myself editing articles a lot more nowadays. Recently I was looking up some info on the Great Leap Forward and i was curious what the estimated death counts were listed as on Wikipedia. Of course they were all over the place, but mainly in the beginning and death count section were listed as 30 to 55 million. However, I knew this wasnt correct, as I had previously read a paper on an analysis that mentioned 15 million among the lowest estimates. So I edited 15 to 55 million throughout the whole article and added the estimates and academic sources for both 15 and 18 million excess death estimates. Just remember to always keep an eye on this kind of stuff cause wikipedia influences a lot of ppl in these sort of articles, and its easy enough to do edits if you know something is off or missing other info!
Hey, so, I'm glad you're after facts and truth and stuff, but also, no one can imagine the difference between 1 and 2 million let alone 15 and 30 million.
I'm not trying to be a debatebro asshole, but there are mental tools that make this pretty easy. I agree these differences are not easy to intuit, but they can 100% be imagined and compared to real physical things with some calculation. People tend to not like doing that though:(