8/n The government stringency index was taken from Oxford data, which you can see here. You can see some problems with this almost immediately as wellpic.twitter.com/ofuXIpmACy
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The article is primarily being used by the anti-lockdown crowd and there is pretty much zero details in the paper on *how* they used the Oxford index. The index is a time series! Did they just pick a date? When? I emailed the contact author yesterday for details, no response. yet
It appears from what I can see of the data that they used the scores as of the 31st of August
+1 on that, I tried to set something like that up the last time this nonsensical approach cropped up but sadly couldn't find any funny ones.
You know, reading your thread made me realize how much these ecological fallacy #COVID19-related papers remind me of ecological fallacy antivaccine papers...https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/11/27/anti-lockdown-ideologues-science-is-now-as-bad-as-antivaccine-science/ …
I love it, the similarities are very striking!
But the (spurious) correlations the *other* way ("masks work") are totally credible?
@threadreaderapp unroll please
Hallo, the unroll you asked for: @GidMK: Wow. Yet another ecological paper on COVID-19 that appears to have some astonishing flaws Let's do a bit of… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332187998343970816.html … Enjoy :) 
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