CDC gun data is crap

[eris]

Putting this in politics because it really does point to the bias of the CDC researchers.


The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even Less Reliable

According to the CDC’s most recent figures, somewhere between 31,000 and 236,000 people were injured by guns in 2017. That range, which represents the confidence interval — the high and low ends of a range of estimates that probably contains the real number, whatever that number is — is almost four times wider than the one given in the agency’s 2001 estimate.

“When I looked at the 2017 numbers, I went, ‘Oh, my god,’” said David Hemenway, the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. “You just can’t use those numbers.”

The CDC acknowledges its estimates are unreliable, but as it’s the nation’s premier public health agency, its figures are still widely used by researchers, journalists and the general public. That the latest numbers have become even more uncertain suggests that the CDC can’t be counted on to accurately estimate the number of gun injuries in the U.S. right now.

 

[Jem45472]

I can't bring myself to read it. Move along, nothing to see here.

 

[Acer-m14]

there using common core math .. all invalid .. they should just ban Autos ..

 

[Saltwater60]

Yeah that’s a big range. Go for a new job and they say I’ll pay you between $31,000 and $236,000 would you take that job?

 

[Curmudgeon]

"Injured by guns."

I tore the skin off my hand cuz I was too close to the slide probably counts.

 

[HIghlander]

They must be counting the slide catch on the skin between thumb and forefinger.

 

[eris]

They must be counting the slide catch on the skin between thumb and forefinger.

The CDC reported today that incident of M1 Thumb rose dramatically last year.

 

[Mr. terzmo]

They must be counting the slide catch on the skin between thumb and forefinger.

My mother's doctor fixed it when I was born. No semi has ever caught my noodle.