Today, this new preprint from John Ioannidis (of "Most Published Research Findings Are False" fame) went online Already up to Altmetric of 541 Let's do a rapid peer-review on twitter 1/npic.twitter.com/aNth3I59Xa
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Tested (based on the paper he cites!) the number missed would vary between ~0-10%, so a blanket 20% reduction is pretty obviously wrong Anyway no worries, important to know if I made any mistakes
Also interesting to note that since I published this thread a number of other errors have come up - he gets the population of Ada county wrong, uses the wrong IFR from Gangelt, and some of the multiplication rounded down which is less than ideal
Well, I don’t actually know what I’m talking about, I just became an armchair epidemiologist 2 months ago. But I think the IFR of age ranges would be very useful and would get some serious play.
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