The Problem Of Questionable Data

… is that you then draw questionable conclusions, questionable further questions, and other such adventures in FallacyLand. So consider this:

Yeah. Russia, with a population of 144 million, or very roughly one tenth of its neighbor China, has no deaths.

Really?

And I have heard nary a word on the subject.

I wonder if epidemiologists are adjusting for possibly bad data out of Russia.

Meanwhile, Italy, with a population of 60 million, is nearly at 3,000 deaths, which is very near China’s totals. Again, how trustable is this data?

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