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Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - October 07, 2020 08:30 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: “Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones
Next Episode: A short history of probability
After nearly 16,000 cases disappeared off coronaviruses spreadsheets, we ask what went wrong. How common are lasting symptoms from Covid-19? If you survey people about the death toll from Covid, they’ll make mistakes. What do those mistakes teach us? Pedants versus poets on the subject of exponential growth. And we dive deep into the unholy marriage of mathematicians, gamblers, and actuaries at the dawn of modern finance.