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[Closed] Misuse of statistics, its driving me crackers!!

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Can no ****ing journalist give us the ****ing disease per 100 000 people rather than raw data that means **** all.


 
Posted : 27/03/2020 9:25 am
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per 100 000 people

What would that tell you?


 
Posted : 27/03/2020 9:29 am
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It normalises the values to remove the size of the population from the representation. 100000 cases is one thing for Switzerland, but a different scale of problem in US...


 
Posted : 27/03/2020 9:31 am
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What would that tell you?

A ****ing load more than just saying that the US has the more cases than Italy.

And thats before we look at the huge differences in testing regimes.


 
Posted : 27/03/2020 9:35 am
 Drac
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Yay! A covid thread.


 
Posted : 27/03/2020 9:35 am
 Drac
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