Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by CapitalistCartr on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:36AM (#25811501)

While the State has handled this case wrong, she is not innocent in this. She made a bunch of drama about her interpretation of the data, which was, at best, no better than the State's method, and more likely, she was flat-out wrong. She is mostly a drama queen making a crazy mess.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by tyingq on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:38AM (#25811521)

"not innocent"

Like criminally not innocent? Not clear on what you mean hear.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by jkhdigital on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:58AM (#25811723)

My interpretation is that she's not the whistleblower she claims to be, and in fact has unfairly cast a dark shadow over the work of everyone else involved in Florida's Covid-19 dashboard through her accusations.

Honestly, I think she was just attributing sinister motives to fairly inane bureaucratic decisions about data and reporting. But once she decided to go on CNN and lob accusations, this whole fiasco turned into a political Rorschach test that is completely unmoored from the underlying reality.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by raphlinus on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:22AM (#25811981)

I've been watching with some interest, and feel like I don't know anywhere near the whole story. We all look for "good guys" and "bad guys" to make sense of a narrative, but I come away with the feeling that Ms Jones is not solidly in the former camp. One data point I have for this is the way she tears down others who are doing their best work, for example a very public feud with Emily Oster: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1344067350216265729

We have some serious work to do. I'm very hopeful that we're going to have a very solid team at the national leadership level in 3 days, after a year of a vacuum, but I'm still concerned about state and local levels. I don't think these types of personality fights are very helpful.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by CapitalistCartr on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:46AM (#25811607)

The State of Florida has handled the case in a Hollywood-level of bungling, thuggish ineptitude. Both sides in this case are dirty. As an active Floridian, I've followed the Covid numbers closely, and at first her story was deeply worrying. But her actual data arguments are idiotic. She doesn't understand data analysis at all. Meanwhile the State acts like the Mafia. Ron DeSantis has been one of the dumber governers we've had, and that's saying something. Regardless of her, I'd love to see him impeached over this.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by selimthegrim on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:11PM (#25812455)

Can you give an example of one of her idiotic arguments?

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by MeinBlutIstBlau on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:34AM (#25812103)

Calling a woman a drama queen is not sexist. Just like calling a dumb man a meathead.

It would be sexists to say "all women are drama queens." Police some other type of derogatory remark elsewhere please. You're adding nothing to the conversation.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by craigching on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:41AM (#25812147)

Do we really need the derogatory remarks in the first place?

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by mythrwy on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:48PM (#25813578)

That's a separate, (but important) topic.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by lawnchair_larry on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:45AM (#25812184)

You should take a look at her previous run-ins with the law. Definitely an unstable individual who has a history of victimizing others.

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