It’s funny how people seem to assume that information is perfect and it’s just about discovery. And people trust numbers even if they don’t know the veracity.

It’s funny how people seem to assume that information is perfect and it’s just about discovery. And people trust numbers even if they don’t know the veracity. I remember people reading Covid case counts and taking shifts as having meaning at the local level that just doesn’t exist. A shift of cases from 50 to 100 and back to 50 over two weeks is much more likely to just be a reporting backup than some one week spike. The data quality especially in small areas is so variable it’s not actionable. But people would watch as if it mattered. There’s some things like temperature that are accurately measurable, but most things have a lot of context that only lets you know how to use things.