3 ms·
What does that mean?
by throwaway_pdp09 7y ago
What does that mean?
- kaybe 7y agoPeople on cruise ships are usually not a good sample of the general population, for example, the mean age is quite high.
- btilly 7y agoBut it is also a sample with few in the sickest bracket, who are a disproportionate fraction of deaths. And the number of deaths is sufficiently small that it is consistent with a wide range of death rates.
- projektfu 7y agoAnother way to put it is that the study is enumerative and not analytic. Unfortunately, just about every study being done on COVID is enumerative. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_and_enumerative_statistical_studies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_and_enumerative_sta...