Commentary, June 11, 2020 Today it’s almost all about San Diego – city and county. Most of the big charts will be from 13 cities within the county and the 10 zip codes most heavily affected by COVID-19 in the county. By the way, the slides are labeled “A” through “K”, so I’ll just refer
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Posts focusing on the 33 hardest hit zip codes in San Diego county.
June 3, 2020
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Commentary, June 3-4, 2020 I’ve added a FAQ #2, explaining what to look at in the mCharts and why I don’t include certain types of data in my regular reporting. So please take a look at that before you ask me a question about it — the answer may be there. Special thanks to Redditor /u/myotheraccount432423 who
May 29, 2020
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My goal today: keep it short. I’m only going to comment on things that jump out at me. DASHBOARD TABLES & MINI-CHARTS Daily new cases are not going down across the US. We’re averaging 20K per day, but yesterday, it went up to 22,660. Most of that is an increase in testing, but some of
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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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