Confirmation bias must play a major role here too. The major media was eager to promote Jones' version of events because it confirmed the views that they already held (that FL appearing better than NY must be explainable by data manipulation).
A couple of months ago I heard Charity Dean (the CA public health official who was one of the heroines of Michael Lewis’ “The Premonition” say that Florida didn’t report its deaths accurately and that was a reason for its comparative positive ranking on that measure. If someone as well informed as Dean believes that, it’s really cause for despair.
Confirmation bias must play a major role here too. The major media was eager to promote Jones' version of events because it confirmed the views that they already held (that FL appearing better than NY must be explainable by data manipulation).
A couple of months ago I heard Charity Dean (the CA public health official who was one of the heroines of Michael Lewis’ “The Premonition” say that Florida didn’t report its deaths accurately and that was a reason for its comparative positive ranking on that measure. If someone as well informed as Dean believes that, it’s really cause for despair.