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How to Think Like an Epidemiologist
- gigama 6y ago“One extreme is to decide what you think and be impervious to new information. Another extreme is to over-privilege the last thing you learned.” Infectious-disease epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch argues that we could all do with a little more Bayesian reasoning, especially when it comes to the many unknowns of COVID-19.
- FELDO 6y agoWhy would I like to think "Like an Epidemiologist"? They've completely f*"ed up on this pandemic and continue to do so. The only thing epidemiology has proven is that "epidemiology" is not a science. It shares it's utter lack of predictive power with the non-science fields of economics and sociology.