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This makes sense. As a kind of sanity check, I thought about the Ebola reporting I've read in the past decades and cannot remember any reporting that used the p
by Arnt 5y ago
This makes sense. As a kind of sanity check, I thought about the Ebola reporting I've read in the past decades and cannot remember any reporting that used the proportion of population. I do remember Ebola reporting that described outbreak magnitude using absolute numbers of people, though.
I'm persuaded.
- ttyprintk 5y agoEbola comes to mind, yeah. Discussing rates is error-prone, I think. The effects that cause a change in absolute numbers are topically different than the effects that cause a difference in proportion.