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Taking a stats class does not a data scientist make. COVID statistics can be very very difficult to interpret, especially at the beginning when data was scarce.
by jjcon 6y ago
Taking a stats class does not a data scientist make. COVID statistics can be very very difficult to interpret, especially at the beginning when data was scarce.
Edit to add example :
For instance, most people agree it is best to exclude totally random testing sites from COVID numbers because even though the false positive rate is very low, at the beginning so was the incidence of COVID which means most of the positive tests would be false positive.
Including them or improperly dealing with that data would be considered base rate fallacy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
This is just one statistical phenomenon that has to be dealt with. It’s complicated and sometimes messy but it absolutely requires top minds
- nix23 6y agoAre you even capable of reading? No wonder you need a specialist to "decipher" simple data as covid-cases/day. EDIT: Why are you changing your comment to that extend. That's not honest anymore. Bye
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