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A critique of the UK government's overuse of data 15:16 - Mar 19 with 538 viewsSteve_M

It is a critique but it's interesting, it's not that the government is totally wrong but is making some big, unquantifiable, assumptions.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2020/03/uk-government-approach-coro

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A critique of the UK government's overuse of data on 15:46 - Mar 19 with 479 viewshomer_123

Thanks Steve.

Yes, easy to jump to a conclusion that the Gov is wrong - it's an incredibly difficult thing to manage and account for. it's impossible to know if the approach we take will be the best approach. The sheer fact we haven't been hit with anything like this before means, in large parts, it is guess work.

Modelling attempts to account for some of that but there are always going to variables and discrepancies.

Any model is only as good as the data you plug into it. Herein lies the problem.

That said, it is entirely plausible that the modelling has worked and had a positive effect (or will have), maybe not the level we all want but certainly a level above which alternative methods will/ would have us left with.

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