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People are bad at exponential growth on a short timescale too. That's been one of the most interesting things about the early days of covid, when the divide see
by wutbrodo 7y ago
People are bad at exponential growth on a short timescale too. That's been one of the most interesting things about the early days of covid, when the divide seemed to be between quantitative and non-quantitative people, like VC firms discouraging handshakes and Vox mocking them for it.
- Kerrick 7y agoWow, Vox actually did that. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fears-contagion-how-infection-spreads https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe... > reducing handshakes is recommended generally to prevent the spread of colds and flu, but not specifically for coronavirus. > Ulevitch also announced that he won’t be taking in-person meetings with anyone who’s recently traveled to China. It’s unclear if Ulevitch was kidding. > so far, the flu has impacted far more people. [...] Yet unlike the flu, the coronavirus is new and not well understood, which makes it especially scary to the public, including Silicon Valley’s elite. ...Wow.