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I had an appointment recently where they took my temperature upon entering the building and the receptionist scribbled the thermometer reading down and circled
by elliekelly 6y ago
I had an appointment recently where they took my temperature upon entering the building and the receptionist scribbled the thermometer reading down and circled it at the top of the forms I had to fill out: "28C". Which made me wonder whether she didn't notice that the reading she took was wildly inaccurate or just didn't care.
Future historians will wonder why various medical records show people with acute idiopathic hypothermia in the middle of July 2020.
- chimeracoder 6y ago> Future historians will wonder why various medical records show people with acute idiopathic hypothermia in the middle of July 2020. You underestimate how many people in the database (from any time period) will have a recorded body temperature of 0, thanks to weak typing and buggy null coalescence.
- ACow_Adonis 6y agoif it's worth anything, as someone who's worked with lots of manually entered data, i expect to see 0.5% to 5% errors in most publicly sourced data collected in this fashion. i guess what I'm saying is, everyone actually professionally working with such on good faith knows its also stacked with a good proportion of bullshit/error.