Understanding COVID-19 stats and models | Is This Legit?

With so much information available about the Delta variant, scary numbers can sometimes drown out the cold hard facts. And that can be especially true for things that haven’t even happened yet. So what's the deal with predictions? In this episode, MediaWise Teen Fact-Checker Ian walks you through the ways to fact-check stats and models.

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[scottfw]

After 5:28, "So, what's the takeaway here? Is it to shun these models and ignore forecasting as a whole?" No, but the takeaway might potentially be to shun sensationalist TV news and ignore corporate commercial media as a whole.

[haitianboyproduction]

Man these people is doing a scared tactics

[AlexP-ybgh]

Why not open the comment section for critical race theory, don’t be scared to hear other people’s truths and opinion and why not research what psychologists think about it, there are always deep unintentional consequences to what we may believe in the moment is right, I could be wrong and I don’t think a couple of minutes is enough to cover the many variables of critical race theory, just my opinion