Re:Tribalism comes for pandemic science
by salmon30salmon on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:48PM
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Hey,
Not sure if you are comfortable with R or Python, but you can look at the code here: https://codeocean.com/capsule/1887579/tree/v1
They do not seem to be taking cultural or demographic information into account. A lot of the data is sourced from the Johns Hopkins data set and fed into an SRI type model, with some data about when and how strict lockdowns where.
It is actually pretty sloppy to be given so much weight.
I'm wondering though, are you saying it because the study did indeed fail to account for all those factors or are you basing it my (probably poor) interpretation/description of it? :-) If you're going off my comments, I may have done a disservice as my laypersons understanding of the topic is pretty rudimentary.
FWIW, the study does indeed model other countries like the US and Italy so I'd be surprised if much of what you speak of was not taken into account.
I certainly don't think they modeled one nation and simply extrapolated that out into the world without other considerations. I apologise if my words gave that impression... Even I can see how stupid that would be.
Here's the link if anyone is interested https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference....