Comments on today’s report, March 31, 2020. THE DATA 1) The cases per 10k people in CA and SD is less than half that of the nation. Note, though, that while 1/3 of 1% of the US population has been tested, 1/4 that many people have been tested in CA. 2) The doubling rate in
Month: March 2020
Update #2 – March 30
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Comments on today’s report. Sorry for the length, but quite a few people DM’d me with suggestions. 1) two of you wanted to include Carlsbad stats, so I’ve done that. 2) I moved the population figures below the fold, since those won’t change from day to day. 3) I’ve added a row, “Doubling Rate in
1st Update – March 29, 2020
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PLEASE NOTE: A new tracking report will be posted each day with current data and the date in the header. Over 90 people responded to my poll, and 80% voted yes, so here’s the first installment. In the spirit of “just the facts” I’m not allowing discussion on these posts. However, if you think of
Note: Posts with an asterisk have some of the best comments from readers.
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by Dr. Steven Novella. In this tie-in to their incredibly popular “The Skeptics Guide to the Universe” podcast, Steven Novella, MD along with “Skeptical Rogues” Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein will explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies and conspiracy theories (Anti-vaccines, homeopathy, UFO sightings, etc.)
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by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall. In an age riven by factual disputes over everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the persistence of false belief, and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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by Donald Hoffman. The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction.
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By Daniel Kahneman. In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacationeach of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
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