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That’s not a complete list for any year, so comparisons of counts is meaningless - again, lots of room for biases to creep in here.

• daenz 5y ago
  >comparisons of counts is meaningless Even if the data is biased, it's still useful when you account for the biases. What are you proposing is the bias for 2021?
  • 542458 5y ago
    A potential bias for 2021 would be that: In 2021 some people are worried about a vaccine->heart link and for any given event may be more likely to document it online and/or add it to Wikipedia. As such we might not be measuring number of cardiac arrests, and actually may be measuring public attention paid to cardiac arrest.
    • daenz 5y ago
      What test could prove or disprove that hypothesis? Creating some criteria by which to include a death in the statistic? (eg, notability)
      • 542458 5y ago
        Notability is sort of a bad metric since it’s incredibly subjective. And we’re not just worried about extraneous inclusions in 2021, we’re also concerned about missing data points for previous years - there’s no real statistical correction for “my inputs are biased in unknown ways”. You need to do real analyses with better quality data (i.e., national death registries) to find a ground truth to compare to. But good news, since this is quite a hot topic I’d expect that people are already looking into that.