I'm going to fight you on this whenever you bring it up. Your analysis is wrong because you're only tallying the first 47 weeks of each year.
Graphs of weekly death counts for each year -- except for 2020 -- are "U" shaped, meaning that most deaths occur in the first and last weeks of the year. By looking at up to week 47 only, you're leaving out a sizeable portion of deaths which makes 2020 seem much worse than it is.
2020 does not have the weekly death distribution as other years, and this is becoming more obvious as the year is wrapping up.
Yeah exactly, missing most of January. I appreciate your input too, these are the sort of challenges we should be raising. It's made me all the more interested to revisit this data after the new year.
I'm going to fight you on this whenever you bring it up. Your analysis is wrong because you're only tallying the first 47 weeks of each year.
Graphs of weekly death counts for each year -- except for 2020 -- are "U" shaped, meaning that most deaths occur in the first and last weeks of the year. By looking at up to week 47 only, you're leaving out a sizeable portion of deaths which makes 2020 seem much worse than it is.
2020 does not have the weekly death distribution as other years, and this is becoming more obvious as the year is wrapping up.
Can we at least agree that OP's post is wrong and based on flawed analysis of the data?
Yeah definitely agree. That's the error where they're omitting January 2020, right?
Btw, totally respect your perspective and efforts on this. Just disagreeing intellectually. We're on the same side though. :)
Yeah exactly, missing most of January. I appreciate your input too, these are the sort of challenges we should be raising. It's made me all the more interested to revisit this data after the new year.