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>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 202
by 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 agoA 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 agoWhat test could prove or disprove that hypothesis? Creating some criteria by which to include a death in the statistic? (eg, notability)
- 542458 5y agoNotability 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.