8/n Moreover, the authors have cherry-picked 3 specific places that appear to support their argument This is obviously bad science - what about the rest of the world?
My first thought - Worldometers doesn't (AFAIK) sense-check or really clean their data, so I'm worried about the quality. I've personally seen poorly sourced data that they've included before
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It's also an issue with a number of the other data sources - for example, the CIA database on obesity is at best 4 years out of date and for some countries I suspect may be substantially worse than that
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The statistical analysis also confuses me. I'm not sure that the regressions were entirely appropriate. Also, the variable "time wearing masks" doesn't really make sense?
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If someone questions a particular value, and proposes an alternate value from another source, we could see if changing it would matter. Conclusions similar regardless of whether all 198 countries, 179 with testing, or 161 with oxford scoring. Findings are robust.
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