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Here is a tweet thread suggesting this guy is being histrionic: https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1220963553911271424?s=21 https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/s

• yorwba 7y ago
  The public health scientists wrote in his first tweet that he's "never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter", i.e. he's admitting to not being a subject-matter expert. So getting corrected by someone who's done their research is not that surprising.
  • seizethecheese 7y ago
    He had never seen one larger outside of Twitter. I think that’s different than how you just represented it.
    • yorwba 7y ago
      It doesn't say "larger" in the tweet. Edit: or is "outside of Twitter" supposed to refer to a region in the space of possible coefficients that are past the values observed in the spread of viral information on Twitter?
      • WillPostForFood 7y ago
        He is an epidemiologist, you have to give the benefit of the doubt here that he has seen a virality coefficient before.
    • egberts1 7y ago
      Probably trying to avert citing the official numbers that may have been classified.