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Mortality Basics with Meep: Median, Mode, and Mean Age at Death and Life Expectancy  

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I am writing this in response to something incredibly stupid.

Dear lord, this is so incredibly stupid (and yes, I know mattyglesias</a> is making fun of Tucker, but if he&#39;s not doing that... it&#39;s still stupid)<br><br>yes, I&#39;m writing about a blog post about this.<br><br>Just some basic info...

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Geeking Out: GDP By Country and Recent COVID Mortality Data  

by meep

It’s Valentine’s Day, so let me do something I love! Fixing graphs! And complaining about North Carolina!

A friend shared the following on Facebook:

I saw that and I had some immediate questions:
1. Why is the most recent actual shown from 2008?
2. What are the different orders of...

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Mortality with Meep: Baseline U.S. Mortality Stats for Comparison  

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Meep discuses total death numbers for U.S., for a “baseline” year. People can then use these numbers to make comparisons in reporting on COVID-19.

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Mortality with Meep: Even More Dominican Republic Deaths  

by meep

Yeah, more of these.

This time I’m not going to talk stats, because it’s a PR problem and not a stats problem, really. I still haven’t seen a damn thing that is really helpful to the Dominican Republic in their response. I went to the DR tourism board site,...

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Mortality with Meep: Dominican Republic and Raw Death Rates  

by meep

Well, I guess this is still going on. My prior post: Mortality with Meep: How Many Deaths Before it’s No Longer a Coincidence?

I saw this tweet this morning:

You probably won't die on your Dominican Republic vacation: study https://t.co/8rRWXhr8c1 pic.twitter.com/HVkYs2Sr8Q

— New York...

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Mortality with Meep: How Many Deaths Before it's No Longer a Coincidence?  

by meep

Not about Goldfinger, nor a new version of Dylan.

I will start with the most recent story I saw:

New Jersey man, 55, is latest case of tourist’s death in Dominican Republic

The State Department confirmed to Fox News the latest American tourist to die in the Dominican Republic — reportedly a...

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Taxing Tuesday: Meep Files Her Taxes  

by meep

Last week, I started entering my info into TurboTax, and then I officially filed on Saturday. I got refunds from the feds, New York, and Connecticut. The New York situation is ridiculous — I earn all my income in Connecticut (currently). But I still have NY state tax...

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Geeking Out: Fixing Fullerton, California's Popular Annual Financial Report  

by meep

So Jack Dean of Pension Tsunami showed me Fullerton, California’s Popular Annual Financial Report, which is a skinnied-down version of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (which I love to read) so that normal people can actually read them.

HOWEVER! The display of the numerical information can use some...

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How to Lie With Budget Statistics: Pritzker and Hynes Edition  

by meep

I was going to put this in Taxing Tuesday for next week, but this has pissed me off so much, it gets its own post.

On Friday afternoon, I saw this:

Pritzker: Illinois deficit more than Rauner estimated

The gap for the upcoming fiscal year will be $3.2 billion, the governor’s office...

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Math Stupidity: Comparing Pizzas and What's Important  

by meep

There is certain kind of clickbait that can catch me, and some math-related stupidity can.

So, I saw the following via Powerline: Putting the Pi in pies: Twitter user stuns the internet with math that proves one 18-inch pizza has more in it than TWO 12-inch...

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