In order to understand the "don't worry about coronavirus, worry about the flu" coverage, you have to understand that there will be virtually no consequences for the press for getting this wrong, and plausibly some "we told you so" cred otherwise
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Take important talking head’s predictions on big stories, convert to probabilities via chart below, give out grades?pic.twitter.com/EYJfwRWWX2
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Huh, what should people use for those all-important 30% to 50% probabilities?
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Well put. It's the same in all industries without skin in the game. Look at market analysts: frequently wrong, but they're never punished if they stay near the consensus.
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The media is mainly accountable to *having an interesting story* in the first place. 2019-nCoV may or may not be more dangerous than flu, either way it will get disproportionately more coverage than other more important subjects due to it's novelty.
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They are just fighting for the eyeballs
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