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  1. Jennifer Moore 😷 @[email protected] ·
    CW: "Physician Associates", that EGM with the biased presentation, etc

    Back in March, the Royal College of Physicians did a survey about "Physician Associates", non-doctors who work in medical settings.

    Then they had an EGM where the survey results were presented in a biased way.

    Now there's an independent report about that EGM, which I found quite interesting. (Process-geekery! Governance! Bad stats!)

    PDF here:
    assets.kingsfund.org.uk/f/2569

    #NHS #RCP #governance #PhysicianAssociates #BadStats

    #badstats #physicianassociates #governance #rcp #nhs
  2. ｃｏｌｄａｃｉｄ 🥛🥓👌 @[email protected] ·

    Apparently, suicide rates didn't increase in a statistically significant way in the first few months of the COVID panicdemic. Study carefully compares Jan 2019 through Mar 2020 to the following three months.

    So, how about the months after the first three? You know, when people stopped thinking this would be temporary?

    #covid19 #pandemic #badstats #WuTangFlu #ChinaVirus

    thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/

    #chinavirus #wutangflu #badstats #pandemic #covid19