March Madness and Covid-19

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steverocks35 said:
He was being serious. When asked about it he said he wasn’t joking.
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sigh...you really damage any chance of anyone taking you serious by sticking to your guns on this.

If you honestly don't understand what trump was saying with that quote, then you don't have any room to critize Trump's IQ
 
steverocks35 said:
More testing does not “cause” more positives. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. If you’re testing enough people then your positivity rate goes down.
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More testing does mean more positives. IF you don't understand that, again, you shouldn't be criticizing anyone's IQ.

If you have 1,000 people in a city and 50 people have the virus, you are going to catch more of those 50 people if you test a higher number of people.

This isn't rocket science man
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
More testing does mean more positives. IF you don't understand that, again, you shouldn't be criticizing anyone's IQ.

If you have 1,000 people in a city and 50 people have the virus, you are going to catch more of those 50 people if you test a higher number of people.

This isn't rocket science man
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You’re really trying to explain this to me? It’s about the positivity rate, that we’ve talked about ad nauseum.
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
Nice man. nice.

You seem to have all the data that suites your point but when someone questions it, you get all defensive and tell them to get their own data
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I’ve given you the data, but you keep deflecting and moving the goalposts and saying dumb things that don’t make sense.
 
steverocks35 said:
You’re really trying to explain this to me? It’s about the positivity rate, that we’ve talked about ad nauseum.
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Yes I am because you don't understand that if you test more, you will report more positives.

Until you admit that, I will keep explaining it to you
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
Yes I am because you don't understand that if you test more, you will report more positives.

Until you admit that, I will keep explaining it to you
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Of course you will find more positives, but you will find FAR MORE NEGATIVES! Duh

This makes your positivity rate, wait for it, go down, amazing how that works
 
steverocks35 said:
I’ve given you the data, but you keep deflecting and moving the goalposts and saying dumb things that don’t make sense.
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How does asking for the positivity rates for the EU vs the US move the goalposts? All you had posted was per capita reported positives for the US as a whole and the EU as a whole.

It is good data. But seeing the trends in positivity rate for the same dataset would be helpful as well. I don't know if as a whole, the EU testing is on par with the US....So if they aren't testing as much, they won't show as many per capita cases.

we should always strive to understand the whole picture, not our own bias' picture
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
How does asking for the positivity rates for the EU vs the US move the goalposts? All you had posted was per capita reported positives for the US as a whole and the EU as a whole.

It is good data. But seeing the trends in positivity rate for the same dataset would be helpful as well. I don't know if as a whole, the EU testing is on par with the US....So if they aren't testing as much, they won't show as many per capita cases.

we should always strive to understand the whole picture, not our own bias' picture
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They are testing enough based on their positivity rates.
 
steverocks35 said:
They are testing enough based on their positivity rates.
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can you post that data? because all you ahve posted is the overall rate from the very beginning.

Also, can you help me understand this "testing enough" threshold? Where does it come from? You seem to think there is a set reality of where this number should be. Like if it is too low you are testing too much and if it is too high we aren't testing enough. That doesn't make sense to me. To take it to the extreme, if you testing 50% of the people and the rate was 15%, your thinking would be that we aren't testing enough. When in reality, 15% might be the actual rate of infection.
 
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