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I understand why the author is laying the smackdown on Alex Berenson, but sound statistical reasoning was murdered within the first month of the pandemic and ha

I understand why the author is laying the smackdown on Alex Berenson, but sound statistical reasoning was murdered within the first month of the pandemic and has been absent ever since.

josho 5y ago
Care to explain what you mean?
- hedora 5y ago
  Not the person you are responding to, but I challenge you to find a single COVID related article making the social media rounds that demonstrates a reasonable understanding of conditional probabilities, and presents data in a clear, level-headed, unbiased fashion. For instance, this article has a silly example of confounding variables (which ghostbusters you watched as a child is correlated to your age, and age is correlated to covid mortality). It proceeds to present two graphs “debunking” an anti-vax conspiracy. The first graph specifically controls for age, vaccination rates, and size of population. After preventing strong evidence to the contrary, the article then implies the conspiracy theory made the same mistake as the ghostbusters analysis. It provides an incomprehensible graph as evidence. So, F’s in Statistics 101 for everyone.
  - jeremysalwen 5y ago
    > The first graph specifically controls for *age*, vaccination rates, and size of population. > Age 10-59 Hmmmm....