{"id":12737,"date":"2021-03-30T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=12737"},"modified":"2021-03-31T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:07:43","slug":"interpreting-data-with-too-much-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/interpreting-data-with-too-much-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting Data With Too Much Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently with a lot of businesses being shutdown people are quickly trying to find someone to blame it seems for the rise in COVID case numbers.  Apparently when you look at the demographic health officials and politicians are quick to blame the 20-39 crowd where data wise that seems to be the group that is getting infected.  So as expected you see a lot of people going around and saying it\u2019s all their fault for going to parties and such.<\/p>\n<p>But then other people interpret it differently.  They bring up the point that this age group is more likely during these times to be working at places such as the supermarket.  Without them working people wouldn\u2019t be able to buy food for the day as an example.  So in that sense it would make more sense why that age group is seeing more infection rates as they are more exposed to it while working.<\/p>\n<p>It makes you think how easy it is to interpret data a specific way that may not be giving you the whole picture.  Imagine making business decisions in a similar manner which is why many times people at the top make decisions where people at the bottom wonder what in the world they are thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently with a lot of businesses being shutdown people are quickly trying to find someone to blame it seems for the rise in COVID case numbers. Apparently when you look at the demographic health officials and politicians are quick to blame the 20-39 crowd where data wise that seems to be the group that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6387,5953,3173],"class_list":["post-12737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bias","tag-business","tag-data"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-3jr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12738,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12737\/revisions\/12738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}