Recent data from Russia have a dubious lack of variation. How a Virus Exposed the Myth of Rugged Individualism

"This pandemic exposed the fragility and faults in each layer of our lives—from our innermost circle of family and friends to the nation state at the periphery—and the differential risk experienced by any individual’s core community."

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How a Virus Exposed the Myth of Rugged Individualism

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 Genuine death counts vary from day to day, as people do not fall ill uniformly. Recent data from Russia have a dubious lack of variation

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Are some countries faking their covid-19 death counts?

An elementary statistical test casts doubt on some abnormally neat num