Corona Virus #6

[goeduck]

The chart would indicate that countries that do not test and do not have confirmed cases to have a lower curve. Why does that make sense to chart?

 

[RSR]

I see them as sensationalistic and attempting to spread drama.

How are data sensationalist? I find it anything but sensationalism, which is precisely why I find it useful. It is very easy to determine the growth rate, and to predict where we are headed based on other countries that are ahead of us in the disease progression.

It's precisely plots like these that made me decide to pull my retirement out of the stock market within 2 days of the all time high. I looked at the data and very clearly saw what had happened in China, what was coming our way, and that the only effective way of controlling it was by social distancing, which had been enforced in China. This meant the same measure were going to likely be implemented here, and that was going to tank the economy.

Ignore data at your own peril.

 

[Diggin It]

Data is only useful when accurate and unbiased.

 

[rswyan]

I see them as sensationalistic and attempting to spread drama.

My purpose here is not minimize the threat (whatever it may be) and provide "happy talk" ...

We have different agendas.

 

[Jim Shooz]

Lotus123

+1 Started very early. Then you could get add-on programs to allow you to print in colour etc.

 

[RSR]

Data is only useful when accurate and unbiased.

Can you specify what in the data is inaccurate or biased?

 

[California]

[re Excel spreadsheets] Lotus123

Yeah. BTDT. Was issued a HP110 laptop with Lotus 123 in ROM. 272k NVRAM total for the spreadsheets and data storage, no external drive. It even had a modem, 300 baud. I've been online ever since.

My wife was issued a Mac desktop around the same time. Before that she briefly was in a team that did paper spreadsheets on desk calculators - and would come home raging when some new orders had changed everything and forced a re-calculation of the whole table. We live in a better world today.

 

[ruffdog]

Covid is found to live on surfaces for 17 days...that is a long time.

CDC: coronavirus survived in Princess Cruise cabins up to 17 days after passengers left

 

[California]

Don't forget that many call centers use what is called a predictive dialer. This is a computer controlled dialer that dials from a list and listens for you to say hello.... I am sorry to say, I hooked up a lot of them...

WE FOUND THE CULPRIT!!!



Were those the ones that dialed several numbers at once? Then everyone but the first to answer, heard silence then a dial tone?

 

[rswyan]

WE FOUND THE CULPRIT!!!



Were those the ones that dialed several numbers at once? Then everyone but the first to answer, heard silence then a dial tone?

LOL ... :thumbsup: