6/n I'm not sure what meaning we could take from correlating COVID-19 deaths in August with obesity rates from 2012, but it's certainly not a lot
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17/n Ultimately, I cannot see how you can take home anything from this research aside from the fact that some country-level measures recorded years ago correlate well with COVID-19 deaths and some don't
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Oh, F. The next phase ("the large size of the datasets compensates for the internal variability") is even better — sort of apparently-plausible-enough-sounding pseudo-data-science sort-of-knowledge. In fact, it's the good old <garbage in, garbage out>.
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