Note: this is not an exhaustive list. Fellow epis, anything else to include?
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Note 2: It's still better not to be an armchair epidemiologist - leave that stuff to the professionals - but if you absolutely have to at least follow some basic rules like checking up the denominator of your proportions
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RATE HAS TIME IN THE DENOMINATOR
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This is one of the few pet peeves of others that bugs me. What has the colloquial understanding of the term "rate" ever done to hurt an epidemiologist? Semantic arguments are worthwhile when meaning/clarity is threatened, but no one's ever confused by the term "tax rate"
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I was about to ask this, too... For me, personally, it's because it's harder to understand what it means
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Thou shall not call thyself an epidemiologist if thou did not major in or do a specific epidemiology degree (sorry, pet peeve around some MPH's)
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I maintain a couple of graphs for my own purposes, but if I were to extrapolate, the cone of uncertainty would look like the wide setting on a fire hose.
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