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Fired data scientist (Rebekah Jones) to DeSantis: "That's a lie" (Original Post) steve2470 Aug 2020 OP
Following.. flamingdem Aug 2020 #1
Rebekah Jones needs a job in the next Democratic administration. Jeebo Aug 2020 #2
If DeSatan's lips were moving he was lying. lpbk2713 Aug 2020 #3
I asked her for evidence, hopefully in the next few days she can produce it steve2470 Aug 2020 #4
TWO THINGS! Roland99 Aug 2020 #5
And here's an explanation as to why the state of FL dilutes the % positive in those bar charts Roland99 Aug 2020 #6

Jeebo

(2,023 posts)
2. Rebekah Jones needs a job in the next Democratic administration.
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 05:13 PM
Aug 2020

Either in Tallahassee, or D.C.

-- Ron

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
4. I asked her for evidence, hopefully in the next few days she can produce it
Tue Aug 18, 2020, 11:02 PM
Aug 2020

I support her. I am just curious, that's all.

She's a good person. Look at this:











Roland99

(53,342 posts)
5. TWO THINGS!
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 12:09 PM
Aug 2020

1) She's not the most trustworthy. Her own dashboard inflates the number of new daily cases by including unreliable antibody tests as new cases (which is quite dishonest)

2) She's dead-on correct about the new case % positive.

See my tracking spreadsheet here:
https://tinyurl.com/y7dvoc9w

Here's a graph of FL's testing and % positive over a 7-day trend since May 4 (the "reopening)



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