Monthly Archives: July 2021

I’m sure our eastern neighbors would always – at least since Carolus XII – answer the title question affirmatively, regardless of what context it is asked in 🙂 but I decided to use this somewhat click-baity title to illustrate the … Continue reading →

(text below is in Swedish, but I’m sure Google Translate does a decent job, let’s see:) https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/vardskulden-fran-installda-operationer/

To beat the dead horse even further… just run into fresh numbers on Life Expectancy in Europe, produced by Eurostat. Since computing Life Expectancy involves age adj. mortality, I first did a quick check on the Correlation Coefficient between Eurostat’s … Continue reading →

On popular demand (hi Brad! 🙂 a follow-up on this post, where I compared Finland vs. Sweden. This post will look at mortality and excess deaths for four of the five Nordic countries (reason to exclude Iceland is mainly that … Continue reading →

I don’t usually bother analyzing anything COVID-related for any other country than Sweden. The main reason is that IMO, comparing countries in terms of COVID-cases, COVID-deaths etc is a fools errand, since there is such a vast array of unmeasured … Continue reading →

Doctors say children haven’t been exposed to range of bugs due to lockdowns, distancing and sanitiser and their immune systems are suffering — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt Naive Tinkering with a Complex System, such as the human immune system, is not … Continue reading →

Thread by @ZubyMusic: 20 Things I’ve Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The ‘Pandemic’ (THREAD): 1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right. 2/ At least 20% of the population has st…… — Read on … Continue reading →

The chicken-and-egg problem (which came first?) – Response to CNN and William Schaffner — Read on http://www.geertvandenbossche.org/

There’s a remarkable difference in all cause mortality between the 65-79 year olds, compared to the other age groups : while all the other three age groups have had mortality significantly below average for most of 2021, the 65-79 year … Continue reading →

This is the second post of a series about causality in data science. You can check the first one “Why do we need causality in data science?” and the next one “Observing is not intervening”. As we… — Read on … Continue reading →