{"id":673,"date":"2020-04-01T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T11:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=673"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:13:07","slug":"statistics-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Statistics in the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see even the smallest amount of proper stats reporting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/apr\/01\/uk-coronavirus-live-nhs-testing-covid-19-updates-latest?CMP=share_btn_tw&amp;page=with:block-5e8473028f08532a0e665d4d#block-5e8473028f08532a0e665d4d\">This blog post from The Guardian<\/a> actually mentions a reduction in the reproduction number (from 2.6 to 0.62), the 'R0' in my equations below. Meaningful and super-useful.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-52111606\">this kind of reporting from the BBC<\/a> on the symptom tracker app needs to be thrown in the sea. Completely meaningless summary of a potentially very important survey. Rubbish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great to see even the smallest amount of proper stats reporting. This blog post from The Guardian actually mentions a reduction in the reproduction number (from 2.6 to 0.62), the 'R0' in my equations below. Meaningful and super-useful. Conversely, this kind of reporting from the BBC on the symptom tracker app needs to be thrown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statistics in the Media<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40,39],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}