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Why States Should Aim for 100 Percent Vaccination
- gretful 12y ago" Although both numbers are high, Montana has four times as many whooping cough cases per person than Louisiana. " - how much of this is due to vaccination and how much is due to different climates? Or other non-obvious factors?
- esquivalience 12y agoIs this just bad use of stats? The article's premises are based on the regression lines he's put on them, but the're at best very loose. Looking at the second graph in particular, where the author's point is that the positive skew is unexpected. It seems to me that (1) the line is only just positive anyway; (2) no error bars or survey methodology is evident even though we're talking numbers lower than 0.5 in 100,000; and (3) it's clear that outliers NY and NJ not only form part of the regression, but are skewing it dramatically. I can't do it at the moment but I bet that if you remove those two outliers, the line will tip negative (as expected).
- mef 12y agoFYI the author is a she, not a he.
- esquivalience 12y agoMy bad. Luckily, that doesn't really affect the regression lines.
- Executor 12y agoIf these states supported voluntary instead of FORCED vaccinations I think this topic wouldn't be an issue.