ransomnote: The Worldometer uses, as its source, many organizations which have their own credibility problems. Since 'someone' rewrote the content of Wikipedia's entry for Worldometer to eliminate mention of it's flaws/limitations, I thought I should capture what Worldometer says about itself before it, too is revised and sanitized."Sources and MethodsOur sources include Official Websites of Ministries of Health or other Government Institutions and Government authorities' social media accounts."Worldometer links their sources on another page. Here's just a subset of a larger list - their dominant source is the United Nations.Worldometer - Sources (worldometers.info)United Nations, Statistics DivisionEconomic Commission for Asia and...
Worldometer is the underpowered, cobbled together peer of SNOPES in data reliability
The Covid-19 pandemic has catapulted one mysterious data website to prominence, sowing confusion in international rankings
ransomnote: Worldometer.com seems to the be SNOPES of demographic & statistical data sharing. It's rather humorous to see CNN posturing as if its standards are higher than that of Worldometer.Excerpts:Instead of citing Johns Hopkins, Spanish officials are now pointing to testing rankings from a data aggregation website called Worldometer — one of the sources behind the university’s widely cited coronavirus dashboard — and prompting questions about why some governments and respected institutions have chosen to trust a source about which little is known.SNIPThe website claims to be “run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers” and “published by...