amber_fluid wrote:Trader wrote:amber_fluid wrote:Where’s Ol mate Trader
You rang?
You’re our resident mathematician
Fine....
NSW has over 18,700 active cases as of last night.
NSW has less than 40 people in ICU.
Dissecting a subset of the wider community which represents 0.2% of the active cases is statistically flawed.
But manipulating stats to align with our own personal bias is exactly what this thread it built on, so in the interests of continuing to push out the misinformation, lets do it.
When 7.5% of the population (the unvaxxed) represent 78.8% of the ICU patients, you could say they are overrepresented by a
factor of 10.5 (ie: 78.8/7.5).
Then again, you could look at it from the other side and say that 21.2% of the ICU cases come from 92.5% of the population (double jabbed), and therefore they are underrepresented by a
factor of 0.77 (ie: 1-(21.2/92.5)).
Or you could really twist the stats, like Jo did a couple of pages back:
jo172 wrote:NSW seems instructive on the vacs.
33 people in the ICU, 26 of them unvaccinated. Given only 6.6% are unvaccinated, but they make up 78.8% of the cases in the ICU it would seem that you're 52 times more likely to end up in the ICU if you are unvaccinated.