The amount of sympathy that death, cruelty or suffering is expected to evoke from the audience is often inversely proportional to the magnitude of its effects. Far more important is the degree to which the audience knows the character(s) affected. Part of this is that the major deaths occur on stage or on camera, in detail and taking long enough to be dramatic. Truth in Television, alas. Has even been reproduced in a lab, where increasing the number of a criminal's victims causes people to recommend a lower sentence. Examples of A Million Is a Statistic include: