| Thanks for the reply, stats aren't my strong point, I am sincere with my questioning. My wording sucks, I don't think my personal judgement of "excess deaths" is "correct", — nothing like that. It just kind of feels like, as an example, people trying to predict financial markets, throw in a few factors, and a few sentiments and thus, X does equal B^(Y * B)(blah % what)(huh ^ bleh). The "further investigation" is the "investigation" I was originally begging the question for. Not trying to antagonize you, I just don't really get why the originally linked article is "True", until further things are investigated. Science is one phenomena that proves itself, that's great. Stats seems very malleable, I've met some people who are good at statistics, I've personally visually plotted graphs too, and it all kinda seems bias. (I probably did them wrong) Can any statisticians chime in? Is this a reasonable dataset? |