Is four a lot?
Q: Is four a lot?
A: Depends on the context. Lockdowns, yes. Incursions per 46000 people through MIQ, no.
Q: We’ve had four lockdowns in Auckland, right?
A: Yes
Q: And how many cases let through MIQ for each 46000 people?
A: About four
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Q: ಠ_ಠ
A: My point, and I do have one, is that more people need to say what their criteria are. If you think four lockdowns is unacceptable, what’s your target that you can argue a realistic system would achieve? If you think 10 cases in 115000 MIQ visitors is a good result, what would it take to be a bad result?
Q: So what’s your threshold?
A: I don’t know. That’s why I haven’t been making comments about the overall performance being good or bad.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
Closely related to the ever-growing frustration with even respected news outlets for their semi-regular (if not outright regular) reporting of numbers without relevant comparisons, let alone context.
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