Given the number of 'covid deaths' compared the normal number of deaths a year in Canada, there should have been about a 10% increase in deaths in 2020. That's not really a "huge influx". It's hard to say if a funeral home would have noticed that kind of increase over the course of a year. For the sake of visualization, this is what a 10% increase looks like. That's not a very noticable difference over the course of a year. So I'm afraid this isn't a very accurate metric.
We also don't know how many she called who answered "Yeah there was a bit more in 2020 than normal".
I’m sorry but come on - funeral homes business is death.
I realize that but asking some receptionist off the top of their head if they noticed a ten percent increase in business over the last year is not an accurate metric. That kind of variation probably isn't even perceptible by staff unless they're going out of their way to measure it.
I understand what she's getting at, she's probably right, and this is a good vector to try and prove it, but not by just cold-calling funeral homes asking if they feel like there was a ten percent increase in business over the last year. That's not a valid data point. She needs to find hard numbers.
If you're not going accept sketchy data off of the other side, you can't accept it off of ours either. That's called confirmation bias.
You are saying all this based on zero working knowledge of operations in the industry you are commenting on
I don't need to have worked in the funeral industry to know that just cold-calling businesses and asking the first person who picks up the phone if off the top of their head they feel like they had a 10% increase in business over the last year isn't valid data that you can base a conclusion on.
Get back to me when you have real data, Because this isn't going to convince any skeptic and is therefore useless.
Given the number of 'covid deaths' compared the normal number of deaths a year in Canada, there should have been about a 10% increase in deaths in 2020. That's not really a "huge influx". It's hard to say if a funeral home would have noticed that kind of increase over the course of a year. For the sake of visualization, this is what a 10% increase looks like. That's not a very noticable difference over the course of a year. So I'm afraid this isn't a very accurate metric.
We also don't know how many she called who answered "Yeah there was a bit more in 2020 than normal".
The 20 year annual trend for average annual increase pretty much nullifies the %10 change.
The boomers are beginning their die off.
I realize that but asking some receptionist off the top of their head if they noticed a ten percent increase in business over the last year is not an accurate metric. That kind of variation probably isn't even perceptible by staff unless they're going out of their way to measure it.
I understand what she's getting at, she's probably right, and this is a good vector to try and prove it, but not by just cold-calling funeral homes asking if they feel like there was a ten percent increase in business over the last year. That's not a valid data point. She needs to find hard numbers.
If you're not going accept sketchy data off of the other side, you can't accept it off of ours either. That's called confirmation bias.
I don't need to have worked in the funeral industry to know that just cold-calling businesses and asking the first person who picks up the phone if off the top of their head they feel like they had a 10% increase in business over the last year isn't valid data that you can base a conclusion on.
Get back to me when you have real data, Because this isn't going to convince any skeptic and is therefore useless.
4 people in my family have died from non covid related diseases this year. None of them have had a funeral.