Anyone traveling to Vermont for leaf season?

stew47 wrote:
“There’s no evil conspiracy, just a computer algorithm. “

Good that’s easy to figure out... their algorithm is wrong. There’s no sin in that. It happens. Needs more work and more input.

With all due respect, no, it is not wrong, it is intentionally skewed. It is not meant to be a definitive case count, it is a guide to who’s in a safer or riskier area.

In dealing with a deadly virus I doubt anyone could fault them for wanting to be cautious.

“There’s no evil conspiracy, just a computer algorithm. “

Good that’s easy to figure out... their algorithm is wrong. There’s no sin in that. It happens. Needs more work and more input.

What did I miss?

dedmiston wrote:
I've deleted all the comments from TxGearhead. It's safe to return to this thread now.

Thank you.

JaxDad wrote:
There’s no evil conspiracy, just a computer algorithm.

Never let reading the fine print prevent a good conspiracy theory.

Dave

The website very clearly says “ The most recent infection data is pulled once a week from Johns Hopkins University's (“Johns Hopkins”) COVID-19 GitHub repository and the New York Department of Health’s website, then put through a viral load algorithm to assess an estimated number of active cases per million for gauging relative risk of interstate travel.“.

Again “... assess an estimated number of active cases...”.


There’s no evil conspiracy, just a computer algorithm.

I think John Hopkins is full of it. I don’t have the time to go through and look at a bunch of counties. I did pick hillsborough county new hamphsire since it’s where one poster is from. 222 cases per million. Should be pretty accurate as there’s 400000 residents. Then oxford courty Maine. They have 5 cases. 50000 residents so that’s 100 per million. I’m starting to think Vermont may destroy their fall tourist season based on bs info. Whether it’s intentional isn’t something I could guess.

pitch wrote:

ACZL wrote:
I was once told by a former RV club member to which we were members of that " Figures don't lie, but liars can figure".

So who is lying?

I don't think he's implying anyone is "lying" here but that numbers can be manipulated to get the result you want, following the "Statistics don't lie but statisticians do" mantra.

ACZL wrote:
I was once told by a former RV club member to which we were members of that " Figures don't lie, but liars can figure".

So who is lying?