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Now everyone's a statistician. Here's what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong

  • Written by Jacques Raubenheimer, Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics, University of Sydney
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If we don’t analyse statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don’t have the right context.

For instance, we may cherry pick statistics supporting our viewpoint and ignore statistics showing we are wrong. We also still need to...

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