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Texas A&M talk: Quantitative issues causing confusion for both skeptics and leaders in the pandemic

Dec 7, 2021
1 min read

Last Friday gave a covid webinar at Texas A&M discussing various issues in the pandemic in which quantitative nuances have confused people, sometimes the pandemic skeptics, and sometimes the national leaders and media, including:


* Length of lockdowns

* Deniers vs. alarmists, vaccine enthusiasts vs. skeptics

* Vaccine efficacy vs. infection/transmission

* Vaccine safety

* Immunity after infection

* Age and Time confounding in the pandemic and Simpson's paradox

* Variants

* Censoring/fact-checking

* The role of statisticians and other biomedical data scientists in the pandemic

Here is the video:


 
 
 

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Aug 22

This is such an important topic — the way numbers get twisted or misunderstood during a crisis can really shape public trust, and you're right that both sides have fallen into those traps. The Simpson's paradox point especially stood out to me because it's such a subtle thing that even smart people miss when looking at aggregate data. Speaking of mind-bending perspectives, it reminds me of how monumentvalley 3 online plays with optical illusions and shifting viewpoints — sometimes you have to change your entire frame of reference to see what's actually there. Appreciate you breaking this down in a way that's accessible for the rest of us.

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