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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Erin Riley‏Verified account @erinrileyau Jun 2

      Erin Riley Retweeted Kos Samaras

      Bathurst is not by any definition part of Sydney. The lower SES areas within Sydney would appear much larger if you used the same scale in both maps. There are good points here, but the scale is misrepresented- both literally and metaphorically.https://twitter.com/KosSamaras/status/1400234484155310080 …

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      Kos Samaras @KosSamaras
      Sydney v Melbourne. Never exclude social disadvantage from any comparison. As I suspected. The differences are not just family structures (large families, small dwellings) across connected LGA corridors. Melbourne has this. Sydney does not. But differences are also about class 1/ pic.twitter.com/DZNXeIacaM
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
      Replying to @erinrileyau

      This isn't a useful thread in my opinion. As you say, it's far too zoomed out to "compare" Syd/Melb. Also, LGA is not nearly granular enough to make these assessments. Look at Sydney by LGA vs SA2pic.twitter.com/ikS5mY49v9

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
      Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau

      Once you incorporate into LGAs (with populations of 100k-300k people), you lose most of your analytical power. Western/South-Western Sydney has some of the lowest-income areas in the state, but because we don't derive LGA separations by income...

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
      Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau

      ...you get some places (i.e. Blacktown) where there are a couple of very high-income suburbs in the LGA while most of it is not, which completely skews the analysis

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
      Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau

      Moreover, the index of education and occupation probably isn't the best for this - ABS recommends IRSAD if you want a broad measure of social disadvantage/advantage

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
      Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau

      Anyway, this doesn't make sense to me. When you look at a more granular level, you can see that much of the disadvantage in Sydney is centred around a relatively small geographic region in the west/swest https://twitter.com/KosSamaras/status/1400234492984365056?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/rALyvzwGJV

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        1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Jun 2
          Replying to @GidMK @erinrileyau

          And when you look at Melbourne using IRSAD by SA2, well... Not the same picture at all, reallypic.twitter.com/nzU9WTr9Jo

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