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Neil Pryke's avatar

Models imply laziness...and over-reliance on AI...Could the obfuscation be deliberate..?

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Clare Craig's avatar

Do you remember when Graham Medley said this?

“We generally model what we are asked to model. There is a dialogue in which policy teams discuss with the modellers what they need to inform their policy.”

https://twitter.com/GrahamMedley/status/1472243230213394434

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Neil Pryke's avatar

Apologies, but that one escaped me...but it's modelling in a nutshell...I am deeply into

defeating the Climate Catastrophe Scam, where modelling is rife...as it was before and

during SARS-CoV-2. Thank you for what you and your colleagues are doing, and more

power to your combined elbows..! I shall save that Tweet in a file for future study...

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Gary Stone's avatar

The government loves modeling. They can play with the variables until they get the results they want or hide what they don’t want you to know.

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OpenVAET's avatar

Beware that one of Biden's first actions in power was also to scramble the census by inserting some 6.5 million illegals in it. Of course, this had some effect on hiding alert signals. The result is that some US datasets have been updated while others weren't in terms of denominator ; making the US data almost un-usable - or at least not without serious modelling efforts.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01755/ensuring-a-lawful-and-accurate-enumeration-and-apportionment-pursuant-to-the-decennial-census

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Clare Craig's avatar

Thank you.

That explains a lot.

What a disaster!

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OpenVAET's avatar

Yeah, it's one of these decisions so mindbogglingly stupid that it's hard to assume anything but nefarious intent.

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Myra's avatar

Whenever people start looking at data it appears the collection of data is a mess with lots of holes. Makes you wonder what the best way of collecting data is? And whenever you collect data you find there is actually another bit of data you would quite like to have ….

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Clare Craig's avatar

All very true.

Everything is imperfect.

It is still important to try though.

We can't just give up.

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Donna C's avatar

Began with Obama……

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Shelly Thorn's avatar

Thank you! Perhaps seeing this in context will make it even more obviously important.

I've added this to a curation of 14 key facts and more than 80 sources on CDC corruption, to make historical context and verifiable evidence more quickly available.

https://birdseyeviewperspective.substack.com/p/putting-cdc-and-acip-current-events

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Dr Ros Jones's avatar

Presume you’d expect that the ratio of boys :girls would be narrower at age 1year than at birth because of the slightly higher infant mortality rate in boys?

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Clare Craig's avatar

It is - this is just the size of the population. The point is that with any one birth cohort that ratio should remain pretty steady over time (as it did for the first half of the graph).

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Already known, Clare.

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Leynia's avatar

A keen insight.

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Sunny B's avatar

🤑🤑🤑🤑

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