lying with statistics: US all cause deaths edition

July 25, 2022

crossing out cross correlations and getting to the meat of the matter…

it has recently come into vogue to try to use US state scale data to prove that covid vaccines have all cause mortality benefit.

much of this appears misleading and there looks to be a lot of confusion about what some of this data means and how to read it, so it seemed like a good time for another edition of “stats with cats” to see if we can’t get to the bottom of it.

let’s look:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/lying-with-statistics-us-all-cause?utm_source=email