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A bias towards very positive claims in the presence of little data does, though. All of our expectations around covid would have benefitted from the health agen
by nickysielicki 5y ago
A bias towards very positive claims in the presence of little data does, though. All of our expectations around covid would have benefitted from the health agencies being capable of communicating what they know for certain and what they don’t, but unfortunately they decided to make strong claims in the hopes of getting strong compliance.
- detaro 5y agoTo a degree, but I've also found that people love to ignore caveats that are presented, or never look at more than the headline version. The amount of times you hear "but risk X is never mentioned" when it actually is clearly addressed in the source statements or "but the data shows Y" but it comes with a list of reasons why it's limited is mindboggling. (and to be fair, lots of media sucks at putting that stuff in context too) Alternatively, lots of shouting because health authorities are make sooo confusing statements and refuse to give 100% clear cut answers.