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OldSysEng's avatar

Ancient BS Statistics & Computer Science here. The official data is a) wrong, incomplete, confounded, inaccurate, and possibly fudged; b) not intended for analysis, only for headlines.

I find the insurance company exec statements (also cumulative funeral home anecdotes) to be the most interesting, followed by the Walgreens data. Neither dataset claims to be complete in any way, but is likely the most accurate - within their context.

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Kirsten's avatar

Oh lord, at first I had no idea what you were talking about! I was about to search the internet to see if Panera is a country in Europe that I hadn't heard of! 😅😅😅

Okay, the timers are the shots, and timing of shots may be/is statistically significant. Once I got it, the Panera metaphor is actually a creative way to communicate the different statistical difficulties you are pointing out.

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