Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology

[Yonnie3]

from medium.com

Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology

Mar 19 · 3 min read

Vet your sources or more people will be deluded

written by Noah Haber, ScD (@noahhaber), Mollie Wood, PhD (@anecdatally), and James Heathers, PhD (@jamesheathers), none of whom are infectious disease epidemiologists

Everyone has seen messages telling you we must “act today or people will die,” COVID-19 is basically just the flu, and/or that “flattening the curve is a deadly delusion.” These often have numbers, charts, citations, retroactively edited titles (“taksies backsies”), and data “science.”

Unfortunately, all of the above are signs of DKE-19, a highly contagious illness threatening the response against COVID-19. We must act today to flatten the curve of armchair epidemiology, or we will all be in peril.

What is DKE-19?

Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE) is a phenomenon where people lack the ability to understand their lack of ability. While strains of DKE typically circulate seasonally, a new and more virulent strain called DKE-19 is now reaching pandemic proportions.

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Link: https://medium.com/@noahhaber/flatten-the-curve-of-armchair-epidemiology-9aa8cf92d652

[SCantiGOP]

1. I've seen stuff in DU that surprised me

Conspiracy theories, rumors, just completely crazy things.
Even though some of the threads will have 2/3 of the responses refuting the obviously false info, some people will just glance at the OP, hit reply, and say “wow, I don’t doubt this, sounds like it could really be true.”

People really ought to take a minute to verify a claim before they jump onboard.

[Yonnie3]

2. Really? On DU? Nah.

Just kidding.

[lagomorph777]

3. Dumbass Kook Effect