Public Health official admitted she lied and falsified data.
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Exactly. 30 pediatric patients. Tiny. Referring to a tiny number like this as a 4-fold increase is entirely to manipulate public perception.
In the 12-17 age range. She has no idea about those under 5 or those that are 5-11.
The notice says that in New York City alone there were 30 pediatric admissions in the children aged 12-17. It provides no numbers for those aged 5-11 while commenting that none were fully vaccinated. It notes that half of the admissions were under 5 years old.
That's it. Incomplete numbers for the city of New York. The total number of pediatric admissions "across New York State" are not given. ScoobyDoo firmly believes they are tiny, and she can believe what she wants, but she can't pretend she actually knows the numbers.
Don’t sweat it, man. The majority of the population, like yourself, are innumerate and influenced by misleading stats. You’re not alone.
It’ll just take some effort to get out of your rut and not be manipulated by politicians and media using misleading stats.
Start with this:
Techniques used to create misleading statistics include: Using small sample sizes to exaggerate significance or precision.
That business blog's argument has been around for over a hundred years: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain.
Using it to ignore the results of research from at least hundreds of thousand of professionals in thousands of accredited institutions is short sighted.
Choosing instead to line up behind non-experts and their few hundred lesser fellow travelers and charlatans indicates regrettable naivete at the best and serious personal problems at the worst.
Sure, deflect to something else. We were talking about a specific press release.