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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 Apr 2021

      Oh, come on. It went up from 2.6% of sequenced cases to 3.4%—essentially 47 in one week and then *also* 47 next week, but the total already non-random specimens went down so a slight fluctuation in the percentages.) It sounds scarier🚨🚨when you say up 30% in one week, I guess?🙄 https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1387944014075342851 …pic.twitter.com/9xtkpLew9t

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Apr 2021

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      I'm all for keeping an eye on variants—I wrote an article warning about B.1.1.7 last year when it became clear it really was more transmissible and dangerous—but looking at a relative increase in a tiny, nonrandom sample and calling it a "surge" isn't it. https://twitter.com/ThatRyanChap/status/1387811724246532099 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Apr 2021

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      I don't understand this credentialism, to be honest. I'm not an epidemiologist, and Eric has doctorate in epidemiology even if he specialized in nutritional impacts. This is barely third grade math here, if that, so the exact doctorate isn't the problem.https://twitter.com/BoobyJargon/status/1388183627813429251 …

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      He’s a nutritionist, not an epidemiologist, with a habit of being too alarmist and hyperbolic for our own good https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1388138644645584901 …
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        1. David Penfold  🌳  🌳  🌳‏ @PenfoldDavid 30 Apr 2021
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          "This is barely third grade math here". Ouchpic.twitter.com/PEK4IcldP7

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        1. Isaac Speer, Ph.D.‏ @speer_isaac 30 Apr 2021
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          Exactly. You don't need expertise in epidemiology to interpret basic statistics. Inferring that something has gotten worse over time based on a miniscule change in percentage, when the actual N hasn't changed, is just careless.

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        1. Bill Buchman 🔥‏ @Bill_Buchman 30 Apr 2021
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          "30%" figure less salient datapoint than parallels to outbreaks in BC and Netherlands

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        1. Isaac Speer, Ph.D.‏ @speer_isaac 30 Apr 2021
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          Actually, I may use this as an example of how statements about percentage changes can be highly misleading.

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        1. Ken Goldsholl‏ @KenGoldsholl 30 Apr 2021
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          America runs on credentialism (except for Republican politicians and appointees).

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        2. Sulid Fan Account‏ @BoobyJargon 30 Apr 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Yeah that’s totally fair and I appreciate you pointing this out elsewhere too

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        3. Sulid Fan Account‏ @BoobyJargon 30 Apr 2021
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          I think I was trying to rebut the notion that he’s a good source of info “because he’s a doctor” but I was too lazy to show how he’s just bad at math

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        1. Alpha Mike Foxtrot Trödelkanton ZH‏ @TangoLow 30 Apr 2021
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          Oh the fights between academics.. I don't see an issue here, he reported what the UK graph shows at that point in time. It was clear to me that this needs more time to see how it develops. Maybe the fact we don't need to write not to put pets in dryers in Europe plays a role..

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        1. Trevor Haynes‏ @Trevor_Haynes 30 Apr 2021
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          I think the issue is many epidemiologists got a lot of followers by sharing scary covid news over the last year and as the pandemic winds down they’re clinging to relevance by irresponsibly inflating non-newsworthy bumps in variants

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        1. Kaan Oliver‏ @Kaan71334881 30 Apr 2021
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          Yet @mlipsitch strongly disapproved Eric's credentials on epidemiology.

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