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

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“Who’s that crossing my bridge!”

 

“tiz I, the littlest Billy Goat Gruff!”

 

 

Nick

 

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 9:46 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State? - The New York Times

 





Glen, 

 

I think your "spam" is very meaty and I hope you will keep it coming.

 

But these words, 

 

pornographic evocation of our love for *metaphor* will only mislead us.

… now them’s, fightin’ words! 

 

You old troll, you, 

 

Nick 

"Get off my lawn!" <shakes tiny fist> (metaphorically of course)

 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

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From: Friam  <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 9:11 AM
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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.

 

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).

 

On 5/8/20 8:03 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:

> Very interesting view on these three counties...  numbers normalized to population count and population density are a "good start"!

 

 

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