Good point. I played with all sorts of numbers to try to get to that percentage to no avail.
With that said, would you agree that it very clear in the article? What it says is that the state is 7.9% positive -- "the percentage positive in the state is 7.9%"
If not an outright lie, do you think it is misleading? I think it is language like this that is causing people to think that many more people are sick/dead from COVID than is actually the case.
"7.9% of people tested for COVID-19 are found to be positive."
Not that scary.
"The percentage positive in NC is 7.9%."
To me, implies that 7.9% of our population is positive.
That's the difference between the 3,885 people it speaks of who were positive as of today versus 828,559 people (roughly the population of the city of Charlotte) who would have to be COVID positive to be 7.9% of our population.
its a statistocs game they have been playing from the get go. they screamed about the fatalauty rate and how it equals to millions dying. Of course they fail to mention, that assumes every single person gets it.
Then they talk about deaths, then just case numbers, then its positive tests - even if multiple came from one person. then they talk about spikes, which in many cases are nothing more than reporting issues with a weekend dump of the whole weeks cases (note they will even say "the highest number of reported cases" ), when that fails, and people stop testing, sudden;t the positive rate goes up as less tests are wasted on the non-sick.
The goal posts will always move round, cuz in the end, its all about control thru fear.
This plus the election fraud has deepened my interest in learning data analytics. We need people out there who can interpret data and communicate it clearly and appropriately.
7.9% is the positivity rate. That means of the people tested who are sick, 7.9 out of 100 have covid.
Good point. I played with all sorts of numbers to try to get to that percentage to no avail.
With that said, would you agree that it very clear in the article? What it says is that the state is 7.9% positive -- "the percentage positive in the state is 7.9%"
If not an outright lie, do you think it is misleading? I think it is language like this that is causing people to think that many more people are sick/dead from COVID than is actually the case.
"7.9% of people tested for COVID-19 are found to be positive." Not that scary.
"The percentage positive in NC is 7.9%." To me, implies that 7.9% of our population is positive.
That's the difference between the 3,885 people it speaks of who were positive as of today versus 828,559 people (roughly the population of the city of Charlotte) who would have to be COVID positive to be 7.9% of our population.
its a statistocs game they have been playing from the get go. they screamed about the fatalauty rate and how it equals to millions dying. Of course they fail to mention, that assumes every single person gets it.
Then they talk about deaths, then just case numbers, then its positive tests - even if multiple came from one person. then they talk about spikes, which in many cases are nothing more than reporting issues with a weekend dump of the whole weeks cases (note they will even say "the highest number of reported cases" ), when that fails, and people stop testing, sudden;t the positive rate goes up as less tests are wasted on the non-sick.
The goal posts will always move round, cuz in the end, its all about control thru fear.
This plus the election fraud has deepened my interest in learning data analytics. We need people out there who can interpret data and communicate it clearly and appropriately.
I appreciate the conversation pedes!