After being accused of lying about the number of coronavirus deaths in Wuhan, Chinese authorities release a new, higher number. Exactly 50% higher. Could their bureaucrats be so inept at fudging numbers, or is a clever one trying to send us a message?https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/17/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll-intl-hnk/index.html …
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Didn't notice the exactly part. Shame they didn't leave it as 3,868.5
One wonders if there was an urgent late night meeting about whether to round up or down.
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As someone that has caught far too many spreadsheets of "data" from Chinese manufacturers that had =RANDOM() and =ROUNDUP() formulas in the "dataset". It's usually round up.
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Interesting. Can you give examples?
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They could have figured out the 50% increase by looking at excess death statistics in comparison to the same date from past years. Whatever anomaly there is they could have ascribed to it.
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