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Originally Posted by Steve_R
As testing increases the raw numbers of positive (and negative) results will increase. Stevie Wonder could see that coming.
Testing here - you’re supposed to have at least one symptom to be tested - is running 90% negative.
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Exactly what I was saying with "data noise". Changes in number of tests available, and therefore, changes in the protocol of who gets tested, introduce noise to the data. Differences in how doctors decide who "died from COVID19" introduce noise into the data. There are probably dozens, or maybe even hundreds of other confounding variables. Over time, most of this shit should normalize, but right now, we just have to deal with the fact that the data is rough.
They wouldn't have paid me what they paid me in Corporate America if I demanded that business decisions wait until the supporting data had normalized.
