Posted on 04/13/2020 7:00:24 AM PDT by libsdelendaest
I'm concerned that for 2 days in a row Dr. Birx has been saying "logarithmic" curve instead of "exponential" This could indicate a small issue (her staff's too polite to correct her) or a bigger issue (if she doesn't even know the proper vocabulary what else is she wrong about?)
But Dr. Brix doesn't seem to. And yet she depends upon math and modeling to destroy the economy
Math is tough!
Off by a couple orders of magnitude. She had the 3 significant digits correct, though.
She means logarithmic, and is correct in her usage.
I noticed that, and assumed that it was just a convention in epidemiology. If infections are an exponential function of time, then time is a logarithmic function of infections,
The “curve” has been wrong from Day 1.
All the sharks surrounding and advising Trump should be highly scrutinized as well as their yet unexposed deep state agenda, which if Trump is not careful, will paint both Trump and this country into a corner that will decades to fix. Ironic, cause I always asserted and believed it would take decades to fix what ObamaIdiot phuked up.
She pulls out words like triangulate to sound wicked smaht.
Well, looking at the graphs - daily new case groth hasn’t been exponential in at least 10 days.
Daily new deaths haven’t been exponential in 6 days.
I have found that medical doctors, and even medical professionals that post here on FR, may know epidemiology, but they really do not understand math. Sadly, they do not understand or use the correct vocabulary, nor do they understand the limits of the tools they use in their predictions. Those are the same tools they try to convince the rest of the world that their conclusion is the only conclusion. Also, sadly, they are often too full of themselves and their PhD to admit their shortcomings.
Could she be referring to data displayed on a graph on a logarithmic scale?
MDs are the worst.
Deborah is every bit as bad as Fauci. She is more dangerous. She has that “kind woman looking out for the well being of the country” thing down perfect. In fact she is a scheming rat just like Fauci.
I have found that medical doctors, and even medical professionals that post here on FR, may know epidemiology, but they really do not understand math. Sadly, they do not understand or use the correct vocabulary, nor do they understand the limits of the tools they use in their predictions.
And yeah, they, and even many mathematicians, also generally are pretty poor at advanced statistics.
“If infections are an exponential function of time”
Wouldn’t the proper term be “geometric” vs. “exponential”?
Exponential implies a continuous function. Geometric implies a discreet time interval.
Since the number of infections are sampled once or twice a day, that would make the progression ‘geometric’.
I figured you or someone else on FR would know :-).
Just what are the statistics of mathematicians good with advanced statistics?
Yep. She’s the concerned mom telling us to put up our hoods and wear our mittens.
I try to avoid hearing her voice, but when I do, I hear condescension and power-drunkenness hiding behind her words.
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