I really encourage people to think through how "official reports" measure things.
It's often a government declaration to categorize things into A or B, and then anything that didn't follow the official process of getting labeled A is now labeled B.
It doesn't often reflect the reality of what A or B is trying to measure, only the process by which something gets labeled A or B.
Kinda like COVID deaths and how hospitals were incentivized to report every death as a COVID death.
If a person thinks carefully about "how was this data generated?" they will have a better understand of how the world runs and how information gets reported.
I really encourage people to think through how "official reports" measure things.
It's often a government declaration to categorize things into A or B, and then anything that didn't follow the official process of getting labeled A is now labeled B.
It doesn't often reflect the reality of what A or B is trying to measure, only the process by which something gets labeled A or B.
Kinda like COVID deaths and how hospitals were incentivized to report every death as a COVID death.
If a person thinks carefully about "how was this data generated?" they will have a better understand of how the world runs and how information gets reported.