A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisio

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without reliable data?

Article from March 17th.

John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health, as well as professor by courtesy of biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine, professor by courtesy of statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) at Stanford University.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/

[cleonard]

There have already been threads on the publications of this professor.

[OlderThanDirt]

As I posted elsewhere. GIGO. I feel like I am living in an Idiocracy. Take me to Costco so I can get on the Time Masheen.

[zhyla]

Is there better data we should be using? So much questioning of data accuracy. I’d like to know what career you all ended up in where decisions are made based on complete and accurate data.

[The War Wagon]

MEDIA PANDEMONIUM VIRUS makes those in CHARGE, act IRRATIONAL?!?!

Pshaw, you say!

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Well as a former flight engineer the data used to operate the aircraft safely was complete and accurate. I have a binder as thick as a phone book with charts developed through years of flight testing that were used for all manner of operations, like air refueling mating altitudes and such.