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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 9 Sep 2020

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

    Always be careful when you see a study whose results you want to believe. I've been burned occasionally in the past before, and that has made me more...wary.https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1303536487259148291 …

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    Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPHVerified account @ashishkjha
    I don't buy Sturgis study below. Why? Really big effect. Makes me skeptical One rule of thumb I teach is: if effect size of a social phenomenon using noisy data is very large -- be wary So was Sturgis harmless? No. But I doubt it caused 250,000 cases. Thread https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS/status/1302480031638147074 …
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      2. Daniel Probst‏ @skepteis 9 Sep 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        Good advice. I also did it a few times to myself with preliminary results... 😊

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      3. Grant Ritchey‏ @SkepticalDDS 9 Sep 2020
        Replying to @skepteis @gorskon

        Confirmation bias is strong and powerful, even in those of us who know how to recognize it in ourselves and try to be objective.

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      1. Sally Dillehay‏ @SallyDillehay 9 Sep 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        And ALWAYS review the methods section. Their methods were ridiculous. Pure speculation. The exact numbers are known and they are less than 300. As in computing, garbage in garbage out

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      2. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 9 Sep 2020
        Replying to @gorskon @CaliCatWwoman

        It’s a fair critique so I reposted as well, but I don’t think the study is wrong any more than any model is wrong. All models are wrong. The question is is it useful? This model plausibly uses cell aggregation data and diff in diff to show increases relative to expected.

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      3. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 9 Sep 2020
        Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon @CaliCatWwoman

        The critique is “we would see this in national numbers” but that’s not a perfect critique. After all, the model is using existing cases right? It’s saying how much more of the existing cases were likely unnecessary compared to the difference states.

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      1. Lucinda Catchlove‏ @fifilamoura 9 Sep 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        I thought that it seemed unlikely that extensive amount of reliable contact tracing was actually happening in the US (all things considered, but obviously I could be working from a faulty impression and incorrect).

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      1. Kevin Timmons‏ @KevinTimms11 9 Sep 2020
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        My BS detector sounded loudly on this one. I was hoping the media wouldn't pick it up, unfortunately it did.

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