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'Methods Failing the Data, Data Failing the Methods'

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A thesis is nominally a unified contribution to knowledge. Something new, several pieces of knowledge all pointing in the same direction. I am not focussed enough to do this. It’s also “a big claim”. I obviously had to retrodict a single big claim, and surely most people do the same. I’m not amazed with it as a contribution to science but it is a pretty good representation of my mind: unfocussed, sweeping; long on synthesis, short on analysis; more amusing than deep but not not deep. It’s called Methods Failing the Data, Data Failing the Methods. Here’s an attempt to explain plainly what I actually did. (You can also click “The Point” on the individual papers here.) What did I actually discover? Mask wearing in community settings reduces SARS-CoV-2 transmission Noted the global pre-mandate voluntary spike in mask wearing Identified a ubiquitous methodological mistake (the mandate timing proxy) First international analysis of masks with a random sample of self-reported mask wearing data

A thesis is nominally a unified contribution to knowledge. Something new, several pieces of knowledge all pointing in the same direction. I am not focussed enough to do this. It’s also “a big claim”. I obviously had to retrodict a single big claim, and surely most people do the same. I’m not amazed with it as a contribution to science but it is a pretty good representation of my mind: unfocussed, sweeping; long on synthesis, short on analysis; more amusing than deep but not not deep. It’s called Methods Failing the Data, Data Failing the Methods . Here’s an attempt to explain plainly what I ac

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