[FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

[Steven A Smith]

> Glen,
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> I think your "spam" is very meaty and I hope you will keep it coming.
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> But these words,
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> pornographic evocation of our love for *metaphor* will only mislead us.
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> … now them’s, fightin’ words!
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> You old troll, you,
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> Nick
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"Get off my lawn!" <shakes tiny fist> (metaphorically of course)


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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?
> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 9:11 AM
> To: FriAM <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State?
> - The New York Times
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> I disagree, of course. >8^D I think dividing out population and area
> are a misguiding distraction. The simple slopes are better. As we've
> discussed ad nauseum, these "normalizers" are *also* models. And all
> models are always wrong. So, for every derivation, you're stacking
> wrongness upon wrongness. If you're super careful, the stacks of
> wrongness *might* help you see some aspect of the situation better.
> But by "super careful", I mean *professional* modeling ... something
> that costs a lot of time, money, attention, and skill.
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> Our fondness for blinky lights, bells and whistles, pornographic
> evocation of our love for *metaphor* will only mislead us. Data first,
> metaphor second (or better yet, never).
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> On 5/8/20 8:03 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
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> > Very interesting view on these three counties...  numbers normalized
> to population count and population density are a "good start"!
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