Ugh, this is just statistical manipulation. This guy's just presenting the absolute risk reduction. This is no different than presenting the raw number when the percents look bad or vice versa.
-"Oh look, we went from 10 police shootings of unarmed black men to 12 out of hundreds of millions of police interactions annually" 20% increase in cops shooting poor black men.
-"Oh look Greenland's calving off 400 million tons of icebergs b/c globull warming!" 1-2% of Greenland's glacial ice calves off every year, while overall glacial ice mass continues to rise year over year, just like in Antarctica.
This is just lying with statistics. The test showed that of 43,000 people, half injected with the vaccine, half with saline, 162 who got saline later tested positive for COVID while 8 in the Pfizer vax group tested positive --> 95% efficacy within the 2-3 month observation period, whatever that was. This is the gold standard for calculating vaccine efficacy. That's what the data show.
Unless this guy's going to start digging into the test methodology itself (and it's SIGNIFICANT flaws), this is a non-starter of a discussion and totally meaningless propaganda. Address the point that matters (Pfizer wasn't testing the primary endpoint in a huge number of their patients, meaning that 162/8 was totally contrived) or stop wasting time.
This is the clearest summary yet of what was actually observed. The eyes start glassing over from defining ARR vs RRR before getting to the real numbers so only "95%" is remembered.
Ugh, this is just statistical manipulation. This guy's just presenting the absolute risk reduction. This is no different than presenting the raw number when the percents look bad or vice versa.
-"Oh look, we went from 10 police shootings of unarmed black men to 12 out of hundreds of millions of police interactions annually" 20% increase in cops shooting poor black men.
-"Oh look Greenland's calving off 400 million tons of icebergs b/c globull warming!" 1-2% of Greenland's glacial ice calves off every year, while overall glacial ice mass continues to rise year over year, just like in Antarctica.
This is just lying with statistics. The test showed that of 43,000 people, half injected with the vaccine, half with saline, 162 who got saline later tested positive for COVID while 8 in the Pfizer vax group tested positive --> 95% efficacy within the 2-3 month observation period, whatever that was. This is the gold standard for calculating vaccine efficacy. That's what the data show.
Unless this guy's going to start digging into the test methodology itself (and it's SIGNIFICANT flaws), this is a non-starter of a discussion and totally meaningless propaganda. Address the point that matters (Pfizer wasn't testing the primary endpoint in a huge number of their patients, meaning that 162/8 was totally contrived) or stop wasting time.
This is the clearest summary yet of what was actually observed. The eyes start glassing over from defining ARR vs RRR before getting to the real numbers so only "95%" is remembered.
Statistics explanation win right here.