This is the first update using Google Sheets. One nice thing about Sheets is that it lets you publish a read-only version of the entire spreadsheet, so those of you who are real data nerds can go here to look at the raw data. First, a bit about the data. The state of California publishes a dataset here.
Category: Counties
Posts where the primary focus is on counties I cover, i.e. the ten counties of southern California.
May 3, 2020
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COVID-19 Ten County Roundup – May 3, 2020 This is the first weekly county summary. Every Sunday, I’ll try to post an update to this in lieu of the Daily Update. I’ll try to get it posted before noon. This will also change the schedule of the Daily Update. Currently, I wait on SD County
Zorgi’s Reading List
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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.