Thursday, April 09, 2020

Hmm …

… Instapundit — SO FAR, THIS PANDEMIC HAS NOT BEEN A GREAT SHOWING FOR THE EXPERT CLASS: COVID-19 Projection Models…

2 comments:

  1. If you don't want to use modelling to facilitate planning, what are the alternatives? Trump's gut?

    When models prove inaccurate, we need to find ways to improve them. And that requires expertise.

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  2. And maybe we should wait before making headlines of the results. Science is not about prophecy. And thanks to the internet, one can check out science journals and not rely on newspapers and magazines. Also good to factor politics out of the equations.

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