Nate is playing down the COVID situation on college campuses, but he's got the wrong denominator. Those 36,000 cases on campuses are not out of the 20M students in the US, but out of the much small number on campus in person right now. h/t @zbinney_NFLinjhttps://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1304915776667815937 …
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Replying to @CT_Bergstrom @zbinney_nflinj
Now that’s a rookie mistake! I guess that’s what happens when a data guy who’s not an epidemiologist tries to do back-of-the-envelope epidemiology calculations.
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Note that even with his problematic calculations, it comes out, he says, to twice the rate in the population.
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He really should stick to polls and polling models.
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