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Re:Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the S... by nickthemagicman on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:06PM (#23093518)
It will be interesting to compare Sweden to this to see if this is a valid study or more a case of fitting the data to a narrative.

According to this study Sweden's, who didn't quarantine, economy should crash which it hasn't yet.

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Re:Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the S... by downerending on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:10PM (#23098518)
So far, it's not obvious that the global null hypothesis, which is that nothing we are doing is making a difference, has been disproven.
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Re:Why Conservatives and Liberals Are Not Experiencing the S... by nickthemagicman on Thursday May 07, 2020 @05:58PM (#23108847)
I think the burden of proof is typically on the people doing the experiment to prove that its significant.

So far there's not much difference from the control group.

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