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Raw numbers aren't useful — that's like saying "X country had the most COVID cases" without telling us the population of X country, or how its case rate compares to other countries.


Yes but a house with 37 pink flamingos is interesting if the rest of the neighborhood only has 1.


… no, this undid the previous post’s effort to contextualize things. One house in a neighborhood implies it’s the same size and a small fraction of the neighborhood.




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