Erik Voeten Profile picture
Georgetown prof and occasional kicker of soccer balls. Former @IntOrgJournal editor, former @monkeycageblog & @Res_Pol editor,
May 6, 2020 15 tweets 6 min read
A @nytimes story by @apoorva_nyc features last week's German study claiming that viral loads among children and adults are the same. Except that is not what the study results show. A quick thread with some graphs.
nytimes.com/2020/05/05/hea… I tweeted on the study last week. This weekend I wrote it up as part of a module for my students to illustrate hypothesis tests, statistical power, and selection bias. Here's a quick summary.