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Old 08-06-2021, 01:37 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Atmo View Post
The CDC has a comprehensive COVID Data Tracker site that hopefully isn't warped by the Confirmation Bias we see all day from so-called transparent sources.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra...tatracker-home

The Harvard Business Review describes the pitfalls of trusting data without verification.

https://hbr.org/2020/05/which-covid-...-can-you-trust
The CDC site is useful and, at this time, seems to closely mirror what the NYT is reporting.

The HBR story is well done. One their points that many everywhere seem to miss is the danger of massively disaggregating population data without taking context into account. One of the more contentious discussions on the "dead thread" revolved around just such a question. Often these are not what they seem. If we post a chart or a graph drawn from a reasonably well done study without thoroughly reading and digesting the authors' analysis we can be embarrassingly wrong.
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