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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      ❗️Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is not that informative? My new piece on why this may be key to controlling the pandemic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …pic.twitter.com/veHa1BRwMO

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      COVID has a very skewed distribution in its transmission patterns. You can't beat back a threat if you don't take into account how it operates, and this skew—its overdispersion— should affect the way we do *everything* from tracing to testing. That's what countries like Japan do.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      Folks asking me if this skew—that a few account for most infections while most don't transmit—is due to the people & what it means. That's all in the article.😃 It's not just a mathematical curiosity; it has big practical consequences. Also in the article.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      Wow. New paper from India, tracing ~500K contacts for ~85,000 cases. They did not find a single positive contact for 70.7% of infected people. Zero! About 5% accounted for 80% of transmission—not in my piece because it's out today! That's overdispersion. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/29/science.abd7672.full …pic.twitter.com/w5rdctMu4V

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      Look, the science doesn't fit into the lockdown/anti-lockdown fights. It's not how much we restrict, but whether we target the right things. Overdispersion means the right measures take us a long way, but also that we can't relax: It can quickly flip back. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …pic.twitter.com/hGe1ug1YVP

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Justin Fox

      See this thread for some great early pieces (some I link to in my piece) explaining the importance of superspreading and overdispersion, and if you want, also take a look at Japan or Hong Kong early epi documents. We're so slow to learn from the evidence.https://twitter.com/foxjust/status/1311352169896071169 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Justin FoxVerified account @foxjust
      Replying to @karlbykarlsmith
      Hey I wrote that in May! (although this version is more complete and, like everything by @zeynep, pretty great) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-28/superspreader-events-might-actually-help-control-covid-19 …
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      Also, if you suspect that I went to the trouble of writing ~5000 words on overdispersion so I could type "the mean is not the message", I admit nothing. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …pic.twitter.com/0pzV7h2ALa

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Justin Ling

      Described as dense but incredibly interesting=life goal✅😃https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/1311336869968445442 …

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      Justin LingVerified account @Justin_Ling
      A dense read, but incredibly interesting. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Robot Archie 🇪🇺 💙

      Then again, the number of people who assume that I just "discovered" skewed distributions or the Pareto principle this month has been pretty impressive, too. Always makes me wonder if men get the article they just wrote explained back to them this much?🤔https://twitter.com/RobotArchie/status/1311456542047326214 …?

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Robot Archie 🇪🇺 💙 @RobotArchie
      Always nice to watch someone new discover the 80/20 rule https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1311329981419728898 …
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    10. Mig Greengard‏Verified account @chessninja 30 Sep 2020
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      Nope! And I accidentally ran this experiment when a lot of people on here apparently assumed I was a woman. And the atmosphere changed considerably after I posted a photo.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020
      Replying to @chessninja

      I lost count of the people today, all men as far as I can tell, who told me about Pareto, seriously assuming I didn’t know (never mind it’s in the article! 😂).

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        1. Mig Greengard‏Verified account @chessninja 30 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          😆 well, if you're going to start expecting people to read the article! Someone spent three long tweets in an AI thread explaining to me what the AI Singularity was and I replied w a photo of me and Ray Kurzweil at Google. Sigh.

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        2. Felix Salmon‏Verified account @felixsalmon 30 Sep 2020
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          I’ve been told that 20% of men do 80% of the mansplaining

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Sep 2020
          Replying to @felixsalmon @chessninja

          Hahaha 😂

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