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> https://i.imgur.com/zZ7UGVW.png https://i.imgur.com/zZ7UGVW.png I'm assuming the peaks and valleys correspond to weeks, but why are deaths correlating so str
by Judgmentality 6y ago
> https://i.imgur.com/zZ7UGVW.png https://i.imgur.com/zZ7UGVW.png
I'm assuming the peaks and valleys correspond to weeks, but why are deaths correlating so strongly with the day of the week?
- idrae 6y agoThat's probably an artifact of the reporting process. Most hospitals don't report during the weekends.
- dehrmann 6y agoI also wouldn't be surprised if there seasonality in medical care, like people receive worse care certain days, for some reason.
- EricE 6y agoIndeed - there have been many cases of where when things have been reported is what gets graphed instead of the actual dates of particular statistics. The lack of consistent context and framing around the human malware has made most discussions of it pretty useless, but easy to skew in a particular direction for those wishing to make political hay out of a trend (on either side - very few have clean hands in this regard).