Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown

Re:Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown by yorwba on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:05PM (#22148333)

The public health scientists wrote in his first tweet that he's "never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter", i.e. he's admitting to not being a subject-matter expert. So getting corrected by someone who's done their research is not that surprising.

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Re:Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown by seizethecheese on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:08PM (#22148625)

He had never seen one larger outside of Twitter. I think that’s different than how you just represented it.

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Re:Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown by yorwba on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:00PM (#22148897)

It doesn't say "larger" in the tweet. Edit: or is "outside of Twitter" supposed to refer to a region in the space of possible coefficients that are past the values observed in the spread of viral information on Twitter?

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Re:Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown by WillPostForFood on Saturday January 25, 2020 @05:24PM (#22148993)

He is an epidemiologist, you have to give the benefit of the doubt here that he has seen a virality coefficient before.

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Re:Wuhan scientists: What it’s like to be on lockdown by egberts1 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @08:45AM (#22152028)

Probably trying to avert citing the official numbers that may have been classified.

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