The absolute worst part is that they "cut" the scale on the right and then put the final graduation mark as 250, the same as on the left. This is nothing less than deception and trickery. The obvious and only reason one might do such a thing is to fool you into thinking the scales are the same when they are not even close. Shame on the authors and the Lancet.
Here's the meta-analysis of why such chart crime is important:
1 - It shows that TPTB think/believe their populations are: innumerate, (or) indoctrinated cult members, (or) morons, (or) some combo of (d) all of the above;
2 - Let's take a moment to remind ourselves of precisely Who is in charge of public education;
3 - Anyone who sees this and doesn't immediately conclude that it is willful deception is proof positive that #2 works perfectly in producing #1. i.e. NPCs who lack the numeracy & critical thinking skills necessary to understand that they're being had.
I taught elementary school (grades 2-4) for seven years. The use of different intervals for the cold vs heat is an error that a 3rd-grader would be expected to identify on a standardized math test.
Anyone who thinks heat is more dangerous than cold needs to ask themselves why so many people live near the equator and so few live within the polar circles.
Funny thing, too. I was just thinking yesterday about how we deal with weather.
It's normal to heat one's home in winter. We have all sorts of modern inventions to keep our homes warm and provide hot water so people don't die of the effects of cold.
So--when it's uncomfortably, perhaps dangerously hot--you cool your home. Right? With air conditioners. Right?
When it's brutally cold, we're advised not to go out if we don't need to. So wouldn't you normally advise people not to go out, if they don't need to, when it's brutally hot?
That's normal behavior, for normal fluctuations in temperature over the course of the seasons.
Of course, if government policy and regulations have made it prohibitively expensive to run air conditioners when you need them, that's a sort of premeditated murder, isn't it?
The same people who lie about heat deaths want to block out the sun to reduce global temperature. Even ignoring the possibility of triggering a new glacial period, think of how stupid and arrogant this is. And shame on the scientists who go along with this insanity.
If you ever wondered why public schools require students to write about their feelings for 13 years in multiple courses per year with no requirements (and few electives) that involve statistics, data interpretation, or even rational inference, this is why. People are being trained to react emotionally and permanently mentally override what is provable and objective reality.
Wouldn’t have even noticed it until you pointed it out (the X-axis). And I like to think I’m slightly smarter than the average bear. I imagine the typical low information voters out there wouldn’t even glance twice at the scale. Would have been even clearer to leave the age groups out of it for this example. A death is a death. Thank you for staying on top of this BS, Gato!
Question Is there an association between extreme heat and all-cause mortality in the US?
Findings In this cross-sectional study using a longitudinal analysis of county-level monthly all-cause mortality rates from all counties in the contiguous US from 2008 to 2017, each additional extreme heat day in a month was associated with 0.07 additional death per 100 000 adults.
Meaning These findings suggest that from 2008 to 2017 in the contiguous US, extreme heat was associated with higher adult all-cause mortality rates.
So basically similar order of magnitude to getting killed by a lightning strike. 1 death per 1.43 million people per year from excess heat as defined by the article.
That is not an accident. An intern with fat fingers didn’t pick the wrong scale.
You are the carbon they want to reduce.
The absolute worst part is that they "cut" the scale on the right and then put the final graduation mark as 250, the same as on the left. This is nothing less than deception and trickery. The obvious and only reason one might do such a thing is to fool you into thinking the scales are the same when they are not even close. Shame on the authors and the Lancet.
Here's the meta-analysis of why such chart crime is important:
1 - It shows that TPTB think/believe their populations are: innumerate, (or) indoctrinated cult members, (or) morons, (or) some combo of (d) all of the above;
2 - Let's take a moment to remind ourselves of precisely Who is in charge of public education;
3 - Anyone who sees this and doesn't immediately conclude that it is willful deception is proof positive that #2 works perfectly in producing #1. i.e. NPCs who lack the numeracy & critical thinking skills necessary to understand that they're being had.
The Lancet is an embarrassment.
That chart made it past peer review in the Lancet?
That chart made it past peer review in the Lancet.
Unbelievable. I'm a retired CPA, and had to do a double take to understand the chart differences (see bottom X axis!!).
I taught elementary school (grades 2-4) for seven years. The use of different intervals for the cold vs heat is an error that a 3rd-grader would be expected to identify on a standardized math test.
Anyone who thinks heat is more dangerous than cold needs to ask themselves why so many people live near the equator and so few live within the polar circles.
Funny thing, too. I was just thinking yesterday about how we deal with weather.
It's normal to heat one's home in winter. We have all sorts of modern inventions to keep our homes warm and provide hot water so people don't die of the effects of cold.
So--when it's uncomfortably, perhaps dangerously hot--you cool your home. Right? With air conditioners. Right?
When it's brutally cold, we're advised not to go out if we don't need to. So wouldn't you normally advise people not to go out, if they don't need to, when it's brutally hot?
That's normal behavior, for normal fluctuations in temperature over the course of the seasons.
Of course, if government policy and regulations have made it prohibitively expensive to run air conditioners when you need them, that's a sort of premeditated murder, isn't it?
The same people who lie about heat deaths want to block out the sun to reduce global temperature. Even ignoring the possibility of triggering a new glacial period, think of how stupid and arrogant this is. And shame on the scientists who go along with this insanity.
If you ever wondered why public schools require students to write about their feelings for 13 years in multiple courses per year with no requirements (and few electives) that involve statistics, data interpretation, or even rational inference, this is why. People are being trained to react emotionally and permanently mentally override what is provable and objective reality.
These journal editors and “scientists” belong in jail for fraud.
Wouldn’t have even noticed it until you pointed it out (the X-axis). And I like to think I’m slightly smarter than the average bear. I imagine the typical low information voters out there wouldn’t even glance twice at the scale. Would have been even clearer to leave the age groups out of it for this example. A death is a death. Thank you for staying on top of this BS, Gato!
I guess they expect everyone to just look at the pretty color graphic and not bother reading the boring B&W letters and numbers.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
Then you have Chart Crime.
From JAMA network looking at all contiguous US county data:
Mortality in the Contiguous US, 2008-2017
Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, MD, MPH1,2,3; Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD3,4,5; Peter W. Groeneveld, MD, MS2,3,4,5
Author Affiliations Article Information
JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(5):e2212957. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.12957
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Question Is there an association between extreme heat and all-cause mortality in the US?
Findings In this cross-sectional study using a longitudinal analysis of county-level monthly all-cause mortality rates from all counties in the contiguous US from 2008 to 2017, each additional extreme heat day in a month was associated with 0.07 additional death per 100 000 adults.
Meaning These findings suggest that from 2008 to 2017 in the contiguous US, extreme heat was associated with higher adult all-cause mortality rates.
So basically similar order of magnitude to getting killed by a lightning strike. 1 death per 1.43 million people per year from excess heat as defined by the article.
Not a big killer...