Love your work, Steve — I always look forward to your posts.
One thing that had me scratching my head was your statement in the original (uncorrected) version of the article:
“I spotted it immediately when I saw the graph and called Ben and he agreed.”
With what did Ben agree? It seems to me that he likely would have simply told you, when you called him, “That’s the monthly figure”. If you had spoken to Ben before the first post, I don’t understand how you didn’t know that he used the monthly figures instead of the annual at the time you wrote the article.
There’s some subtlety here that went over my head and I was hoping you might relieve my probably slightly obsessive puzzlement.
I've updated the article to the answer to the "error".
It wasn't an error; his ASMR was the monthly value, not an annual number. That's why it was 12X lower than expected.
Love your work, Steve — I always look forward to your posts.
One thing that had me scratching my head was your statement in the original (uncorrected) version of the article:
“I spotted it immediately when I saw the graph and called Ben and he agreed.”
With what did Ben agree? It seems to me that he likely would have simply told you, when you called him, “That’s the monthly figure”. If you had spoken to Ben before the first post, I don’t understand how you didn’t know that he used the monthly figures instead of the annual at the time you wrote the article.
There’s some subtlety here that went over my head and I was hoping you might relieve my probably slightly obsessive puzzlement.
Thanks!
What does ACM and ASMR stand for?
all-cause mortality, age-standardised (or age-specific, depending on context) mortality rate