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Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

Nov 28, 20219 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Vaccines are the best way to stop deaths and serious cases related to covid19, this is an irrefutable fact. However, recent ONS data seems to show that vaccinated people had a higher all cause death rate than unvaccinated people. Why is this data misleading? Here’s a clue: it’s to do with a quirky statistical phenomenon called Simpsons Paradox.

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