I am saying that if you fuck up 2+2 by using bad data you get 4 when really it should be 5. It sounds dumb, but you have start somewhere.
Very few things in life are exact integer math. So with COVID everybody is obsessed with reporting it as an integer. Because that is all the average idiot can understand. People come in integer quantities correct?
So everybody reports that there are 2,000 cases per province and they add them up to get 20,000 cases. But in reality there is a certain probability distribution of false positives and it varies depending on the test used. And there is a certain probability distribution of false negatives. And the is a certain probability distribution that tests are getting lost or double recorded. etc etc
So you can't just add up 2+2+...+2=20. Because there may be as few as 10 or as many as 30 thousand depending on the stats.
That is the type of thinking that question is supposed to instill in a young child if tought properly.
I am saying that if you fuck up 2+2 by using bad data you get 4 when really it should be 5. It sounds dumb, but you have start somewhere.
Very few things in life are exact integer math. So with COVID everybody is obsessed with reporting it as an integer. Because that is all the average idiot can understand. People come in integer quantities correct?
So everybody reports that there are 2,000 cases per province and they add them up to get 20,000 cases. But in reality there is a certain probability distribution of false positives and it varies depending on the test used. And there is a certain probability distribution of false negatives. And the is a certain probability distribution that tests are getting lost or double recorded. etc etc
So you can't just add up 2+2+...+2=20. Because there may be as few as 10 or as many as 30 thousand depending on the stats.
That is the type of thinking that question is supposed to instill in a young child if tought properly.