#Sturgis

Pajamas It Is

HeckofaLiberal

THREAD: Come on @MotherJones this kind of reporting is just careless and simple math makes it look ridiculous. https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/09/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-now-linked-to-more-than-250000-coronavirus-ca

Matthew 🏳️‍🌈

yeahidrathernot

Normally, the cruellest part about Sturgis is that a lot of people in Black Hills tourism loathe the fucking thing. Their numbers crash (and don't bounce back) because no one

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH

ashishkjha

I don't buy Sturgis study below. Why? Really big effect. Makes me skepticalOne rule of thumb I teach is: if effect size of a social phenomenon using noisy data is

Jeff (BPredict)

BPredict

I've had a few followers ask me my thoughts on the Sturgis study. It's gone viral because it tells a story the media likes ("bad" people got COVID for doing

Jeremy Fugleberg

jayfug

Shocked, shocked to see this out of Sturgis. (/sarcasm) So I've been thinking about this a lot. Here's why we're unlikely to ever get a real, clear understanding of the

Noah Haber

NoahHaber

Welcome to Improv Explosion! To set the scene, I am:Being interviewed by : BUZZFEED!About : STUDY DESIGN!On : SUPERSPREADER EVENT!For a : MOTORCYCLE RALLY!In : STURGIS, SD

Devin Pope

Devin_G_Pope

This paper showing that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a super spreader event is getting a lot of attention. Given it is in my wheelhouse, I decided to give it

Anish Koka

anish_koka

So about this paper designed to crucify the heretics in charge of South Dakota Problem for public health folks is that S. Dakota and @govkristinoem appear to have them on

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD) It's in Trumpists' interest to conflate the #SturgisMotorcycleRally and #BlackLivesMatter protests by arguing they're being covered differently—as to COVID-19 super-spreader-event fears—by a "liberal" med

Jenn Dowd

drjenndowd

1/ Did the Sturgis bike rally cause 266,796 new cases of COVID-19? Probably not. Lesson- Beware viral studies that confirm your pre-existing beliefs so satisfyingly. (Long) thread: https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-

Chris Vanderveen

chrisvanderveen

The sheer volume of reporters/newspapers/tv stations that have unquestioningly accepted the results of the #SturgisRally study is... well... disappointingThere are some assumptions in it that could very well be flawed.

Autumn Florek

PlanningAutumn

I think I promised a thread about US Historic Corporation projects in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The USHC was the first federal program to fund and create housing. It was launched in

Chuck Wendig

ChuckWendig

It is worth saying and repeating that we are enduring massive nationwide COVID spikes not long after our president* traveled the country having unmasked superspreader rallies that caused surges in

August Takala

AugustTakala

Going to share the A sections from the NY Times & Washington Post between now and the election to compare what they’re talking about to the actual news of the

Lizzie Skurnick

lizzieskurnick

In anticipation of the @PBSAmerMasters Laura Ingalls Wilder doc airing tonight, I wrote about how racism is not "incidental" in the books, but the driving force of the narrative. (REALLY

communal soda

communalsoda

aight thread on the woman the cia hired to kill castro and then she had sex with him insteadhttps://twitter.com/gofi_kraves2/status/1360088827461656583 her early life is a lot to parse through mainly bcs

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