Over the past few months, we have seen many coronavirus statistics.
From the point of view of someone who uses statistics as part of his work, these errors are simplistic.
The CDC has been accused of changing old statistics.
Often, COVID-19 statistics are displayed state by state.
Now Florida mistakenly looks like a leper colony, so even though Florida has only one eighth as many deaths per 100,000 people as New York, New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared that people visiting Florida and returning to New York must quarantine themselves for 14 days.
Cuomo, whose state is tied with New Jersey as the worst state in the union, as determined by counting deaths, is jealously blaming a better run state for supposedly being worse than New York.
Hopefully, you now have a better idea of how statistics can be mismanaged to lead to incorrect conclusions and conclusions that the wrong people want.
From the point of view of someone who uses statistics as part of his work, these errors are simplistic.
The CDC has been accused of changing old statistics.
Often, COVID-19 statistics are displayed state by state.
Now Florida mistakenly looks like a leper colony, so even though Florida has only one eighth as many deaths per 100,000 people as New York, New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared that people visiting Florida and returning to New York must quarantine themselves for 14 days.
Cuomo, whose state is tied with New Jersey as the worst state in the union, as determined by counting deaths, is jealously blaming a better run state for supposedly being worse than New York.
Hopefully, you now have a better idea of how statistics can be mismanaged to lead to incorrect conclusions and conclusions that the wrong people want.
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