Friday, September 11, 2020

Four Words

I'm not in the mood for a lot of math, but I think there are only 12 combinations of these three words in which kid is always used twice and the other two words are used once.  I don't really care about that since this is a linguistics post.

The arrangements can be categorized into a few different meanings:

1.  An immature goat which is nice to children.

2. An immature goat which is friendly in a general way.

Goat kid, kid friendly 1

Kid goat, kid friendly 1

Goat kid, friendly kid 2

Kid goat, friendly kid 2

Friendly kid, kid goat 2

Friendly kid, goat kid 2

Kid friendly, kid goat 1

Kid friendly, goat kid 1

Kid, kid friendly goat 1

Kid, kid goat, friendly 1

Friendly goat kid, kid 1

Goat, friendly kid, kid --this one may be unintelligible even with helpful commas


Thursday, September 10, 2020

Two notes on this data

 1. The top image is a count of all deaths, the bottom is specific counts for Covid related deaths.

2. Please note the shape of the bottom curve and the right hand side of the top curve.  They cover the same period of time.  These curves look really similar to me, which makes me think they are both good data since they are using completely different data sources.

3. Since excess deaths are now normal, this crisis is over.  I suspect it will take several more months before everyone starts acting like things are normal, but that is because of psychology, not data.