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Occam's Razor, the data is bad, and bad in different ways between countries.
by akyu 6y ago
Occam's Razor, the data is bad, and bad in different ways between countries.
- macintux 6y agoThey tackle that explicitly on multiple levels. “Probably not” is the best tl;dr.
- akyu 6y agoWe must have read different articles. Quoting... >With respect to the raw numbers, underreporting is an enormous problem; differences in age distribution, too, make a very deep cut, and perhaps the models must further calibrate their weightings here. They go on with the complex speculation about other causes, but obviously bad data is a huge driver of this anamoly. Bad data we can be sure of, the rest is speculative narrative.
- macintux 6y agoThe implication of your first comment was that the answer is straightforward. The article makes a strong case that bad data only closes the gap partially.