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It's been truly amazing to me how few people understand per capita statistics. Virtually everybody seems to think that the US is doing much worse than Europe,
by pstrateman 6y ago
It's been truly amazing to me how few people understand per capita statistics.
Virtually everybody seems to think that the US is doing much worse than Europe, when the exact opposite is the truth.
- tzs 6y agoThe US is doing better than Andorra, San Marino, Belgium, Spain, the UK, Italy, Ireland, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands on per capita deaths. The rest of Europe is doing better [1]. If we expand beyond Europe, the list of countries that the US is doing better than remains the same. The list of countries doing better than the US massively expands, to around 180 or more. [1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
- mnm1 6y agoThe US isn't testing enough for that conclusion to be drawn from cases per day. Looking at deaths per day, or per week, the US is number one. Perceptions are correct.
- pstrateman 6y agoDo you really think the world's poorest countries are doing better? Or is it more likely that they just can't afford to do rt-PCR? I'm pretty sure their numbers are just massively under reported.
- pstrateman 6y agoYou're just wrong man. https://i.imgur.com/DqhlWRq.png https://i.imgur.com/DqhlWRq.png Reported Deaths per Capita: 1. San Marino 2. Belgium 3. Andorra 4. Spain 5. Italy 6. United Kingdom 7. France 8. Sweden 9. Netherlands 10. Ireland Not even in the top 10. 11. US Unreported Deaths in the developing world are without a doubt much worse.
- standardUser 6y agoState your case that the opposite is true. How is the United States doing "much worse" than the UK, for exmaple?
- pstrateman 6y agoI said the US is doing better per capita than most of Europe.