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A Blindingly Obvious Solution to the Fake News Dilemma

Facebook and Twitter seem to believe that we’re children who need parental control software to protect us from scary content on the…

6 min readJan 22, 2021

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A Blindingly Obvious Solution to the Fake News Dilemma

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Steve McConnell

Europe Controlled Covid-19 While America Failed. Or Was It the Opposite?

Each American state and European country was presented with its own unique pandemic challenge. How well did each area respond?

8 min readNov 9, 2020

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Europe Controlled Covid-19 While America Failed. Or Was It the Opposite?

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Be Grateful America Hasn’t Managed the Pandemic Like Europe Has

Europe’s management of the pandemic has been a disaster, and it’s getting worse.

4 min readNov 3, 2020

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Be Grateful America Hasn’t Managed the Pandemic Like Europe Has

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The One Graph You Need to Understand Covid-19 Comorbidities

The risk to Trump and Biden is different than you probably think

2 min readOct 2, 2020

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The One Graph You Need to Understand Covid-19 Comorbidities

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Five Wrong Ways to Do Covid-19 Data Smoothing

Much of Covid-19's data analysis is based on flawed smoothing techniques

7 min readOct 1, 2020

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Five Wrong Ways to Do Covid-19 Data Smoothing

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The Graphs You Need to Understand the Covid-19 Pandemic

The right graphs can be tremendously revealing — if you know what to look for

9 min readSep 30, 2020

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The Graphs You Need to Understand the Covid-19 Pandemic

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This is Why You Should Ignore IHME’s Forecasts

IHME is miserably misleading us about where the pandemic is heading. See if you agree the data proves it.

7 min readSep 8, 2020

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This is Why You Should Ignore IHME’s Forecasts

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Covid-19 Comorbidities are the Elephant in the Room

The presence or absence of comorbidities is not just a big deal. It’s a Godzilla-eating-a-major-city size deal. Why hasn’t anyone…

14 min readAug 9, 2020

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Your Right to Spin-Free Data on Covid-19 — August 6, 2020 Update

With a heavy emphasis on graphs, data, and forecasting — and no politics.

5 min readAug 7, 2020

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Your Right to Spin-Free Data on Covid-19 — August 6, 2020 Update

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Age-Specific Risks for Covid-19 to the Individual Year

Age-based risk factors for Covid-19 have been reported in 10–20 year age bands. We can do better than that. It’s easy to estimate…

7 min readAug 1, 2020

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Age-Specific Risks for Covid-19 to the Individual Year

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Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell

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Author of Code Complete and More Effective Agile, CEO at Construx Software, Dog Walker, Motorcyclist, Cinephile, DIYer, Rotarian. See stevemcconnell.com.

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