Staggering wake up call to always see how data presented is actually calculated. There is something about the simple percentage figure that seems so easy to confuse people - even experts. Take the concept of interest rates (cumulative vs annualised).
In this case, what is the denominator? Good god, of course it doesn't make sense to divide the recently dead with the total cumulative population of infected!
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 15.3 ms ] threadStaggering wake up call to always see how data presented is actually calculated. There is something about the simple percentage figure that seems so easy to confuse people - even experts. Take the concept of interest rates (cumulative vs annualised).
In this case, what is the denominator? Good god, of course it doesn't make sense to divide the recently dead with the total cumulative population of infected!
Thank you for this post.