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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
2 guys with nothing burgers. Anyone else?
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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
When I first saw this I'll admit to some confusion. I'm not a data scientist by training, so I wasn't going to assume understanding of this person's jargon, but the further you dive into it, the more you realize that it's a parlor game. Many of his pet phrases that he uses are simply not words, and the conclusions he draws from the graphs do not correlate with the sources he claims to reference.
A good example is the overlay of the CDC estimate data in blue to draw firm conclusions about serology when no study has indicated levels of infection that high, and the CDC estimate that he uses was one of many potential outcomes based on inputs that were purposefully estimates and not hard data to show a range of possibilities. What he does is take it for a fact and then extrapolates IFR from it while criticizing states of "salting" (which is a term taken from mining fraud) data.
It's a good case study in the persuasiveness of graphical design among the intellectually incurious, though.
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Heh... that's certainly a problem when trying to prove someone wrong. And of course there's the old thing with "the earth is flat, prove me wrong"... or "we've never been in space, prove me wrong".
Anyone on the internet can make pretty graphs that don't really say anything, but it's not up to me or anyone else to prove them wrong.