Thread by @ZiadFazel

Last night @CMOH_Alberta gave a presentation to Alberta family docs, and I got a chance to see it and take screenshots before the video was set to Private.

Whenever a politician wants to give you "Context", be wary of Deceptive Framing.

Have a look at her graphs of BC/AB/SK.

https://twitter.com/cfrangou/status/1437618268173332480

Did you do that yet? No skipping ahead now.

I zoomed in for you.

See it yet?

The axis scales are not the same.

Here are the graphs exactly how they look at

health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epide…

The default shows every province on the same axis for fairness.

See that green "Relative scale". That compares each province to its own peak.

Click it. Gosh - every province looks equally bad now.

That is exactly the deceptive "context" Dr Hinshaw used to frame her presentation.

She was trying to pretend all of Canada's Western provinces got hit by Delta in the same way.

I'd link to that spot on the video but it has been set to private.

Now scroll above on that same Health Canada page she used, and see how Alberta really compares to the rest of Canada, on the same Metric:

Rate of Cases per 100K population in last 7 days.
• Alberta has > 3x 🇨🇦average
• Over 2x BC, which Dr Hinshaw pretended was similar

Beware politicians trying to give you "Context".

Thats why I started a Scorecard for #COVID19AB in May.

Same slate of metrics every day, from my project mgmt background, being accountable to the owners.

No cherry-picking, no axis distortion.

Context.

https://twitter.com/ZiadFazel/status/1437542949294723076?s=20

Thanks, @cspotweet.

You have the best instincts on what screens and video to capture and republish.

https://mobile.twitter.com/cspotweet/status/1437800468483170326

BTW, presentation was to Primary Care Network (PCN), on whom she tried to dump COVID-19 swab testing starting 16 Aug.
• Imagine this many people
• sick or exposed enough to worry
• 1 in 8 testing positive
• in your doctor's waiting room daily.

covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca