Re: Report to JCVI on vaccine numbers to prevent hospitalisation
Posted: March 25th, 2023, 7:46 am
I can't see if this thread mentions it, but David Spiegelhalter was in a very good program yesterday around this issue on "Anti-Social" - I hope this is the link https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2dmb
"How anti vax went viral".
However, my point is that this paper was mentioned, as were the statistics behind Andrew Bridgen's speech in the House of Commons which was bsed on statistics but, according to Professor Spiegelhalter, came to a completely wrong conclusion. BTW, he did agree with Bridgen that these policies should be tested and statistics used, but you need to understand them in the first place before drawing concludsions. Otherwise one ends up with "disinformation", "misinformation" or "malinformation". I learnt something there
Arb.
"How anti vax went viral".
However, my point is that this paper was mentioned, as were the statistics behind Andrew Bridgen's speech in the House of Commons which was bsed on statistics but, according to Professor Spiegelhalter, came to a completely wrong conclusion. BTW, he did agree with Bridgen that these policies should be tested and statistics used, but you need to understand them in the first place before drawing concludsions. Otherwise one ends up with "disinformation", "misinformation" or "malinformation". I learnt something there
Arb.