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Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by andybak »

nix23 wrote: post #55
jjcon wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that have to do with anything? Her job was a web developer, not a data scientist. None of those qualify her to understand statistics better than the plethora of those employed by the state that are working diligently. Plenty of employees have been let go for spreading falsities around COVID, most having been on the other side (COVID isn’t real etc). These behaviors are absolutely unacceptable and are danger…

>>where she completed course work with an emphasis on data science and was working on a doctoral dissertation titled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis. >None of those qualify her to understand statistics better than the plethora of those employed by the state that are working diligently. Is your society…

Statistics is one field in particular where it's easy for non-experts to reach completely false conclusions.

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by alextheparrot »

foepys wrote: post #56
koolba wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Having cops invade her home and hold her children at gunpoint didn’t scare her into becoming his scapegoat, so it’s important to escalate the campaign of violence against her. You make it sound like the police broke into her home and deliberately pointed weapons at her children. That’s completely bullshit. The police had a warrant signed by a judge. They repeatedly asked her to open the door, she refused. This went…

Don't Americans have the right for their lawyer or a trusted witness to be present during search warrants? If they do, why would police ever expect to enter without delay?

No, they don’t.

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by gigatexal »

gigatexal wrote: post #11

From the gofundme: “ Lawyer's fees, private investigators, an armed security guard for my home since the police published my home address and contact information online, moving expenses so my family can get out of the Governor's reach, and any costs associated with this fight that I may not be anticipating. My family and I will need to move and get set up in a new place.” Holy hell it’s like she pulled a Snowden or s…

Ok there might be more to this case than I had originally read. I didn’t know of the other parts as mentioned below :/

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by neffy »

nosmokewhereiam wrote: post #37
BrianOnHN wrote: post #7

This weekend I heard directly from a current DOT employee, formerly Dept Of Health, in the FL capitol: "We were just following the WHO recommendations." "She's just a web developer and doesn't understand anything about the numbers."

The web developer part is character assassination at its finest. "Just a web developer...what could she know"

I suspect the key word there is "she".

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by xibalba »

nix23 wrote: post #43
BrianOnHN wrote: post #7

This weekend I heard directly from a current DOT employee, formerly Dept Of Health, in the FL capitol: "We were just following the WHO recommendations." "She's just a web developer and doesn't understand anything about the numbers."

>>with dual degrees in earth science and journalism in 2012 >>received a dual master's degree in geography and mass communication >>where she completed course work with an emphasis on data science and was working on a doctoral dissertation titled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org…

Which of those degrees qualifies her as a data scientist capable of contravening WHO recommendations?

Moreover, she is repeatedly referred to in the press as a data scientist, but all accounts of her actual work are that of a dashboard developer. Having done both myself, I can attest that they are very different types of work warranting very different training.

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by nix23 »

andybak wrote: post #71
nix23 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>where she completed course work with an emphasis on data science and was working on a doctoral dissertation titled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis. >None of those qualify her to understand statistics better than the plethora of those employed by the state that are working diligently. Is your society…

Statistics is one field in particular where it's easy for non-experts to reach completely false conclusions.

True with complex stuff, but we talk about covid-cases/day/region...that's really something everyone should interpret correctly.

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

nix23 wrote: post #55
jjcon wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that have to do with anything? Her job was a web developer, not a data scientist. None of those qualify her to understand statistics better than the plethora of those employed by the state that are working diligently. Plenty of employees have been let go for spreading falsities around COVID, most having been on the other side (COVID isn’t real etc). These behaviors are absolutely unacceptable and are danger…

>>where she completed course work with an emphasis on data science and was working on a doctoral dissertation titled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis. >None of those qualify her to understand statistics better than the plethora of those employed by the state that are working diligently. Is your society…

Lots of highly educated people are on opposite side that lockdowns are very unneeded and government is overplaying/lying about the severity including the one who founded most valuable space company.

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by eganist »

xibalba wrote: post #76
nix23 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>with dual degrees in earth science and journalism in 2012 >>received a dual master's degree in geography and mass communication >>where she completed course work with an emphasis on data science and was working on a doctoral dissertation titled Using Native American Sitescapes to Extend the North American Paleotempestological Record Through Coupled Remote Sensing and Climatological Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org…

Which of those degrees qualifies her as a data scientist capable of contravening WHO recommendations? Moreover, she is repeatedly referred to in the press as a data scientist, but all accounts of her actual work are that of a dashboard developer. Having done both myself, I can attest that they are very different types of work warranting very different training.

> Which of those degrees qualifies her as a data scientist capable of contravening WHO recommendations?

Literally all of her research involved gathering and communicating relevant insights from vast and disparate data sets, which is the role you just described.

> Having done both myself, I can attest that they are very different types of work warranting very different training.

She's educated as a data scientist specific to a given field. No different than a rocket scientist running numbers at a hedge fund. And I'd argue training v. education are vastly different; education gives context to job-specific training.

Re: Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

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Post by [deleted] »

CapitalistCartr wrote: post #31
tyingq wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"not innocent" Like criminally not innocent? Not clear on what you mean hear.

The State of Florida has handled the case in a Hollywood-level of bungling, thuggish ineptitude. Both sides in this case are dirty. As an active Floridian, I've followed the Covid numbers closely, and at first her story was deeply worrying. But her actual data arguments are idiotic. She doesn't understand data analysis at all. Meanwhile the State acts like the Mafia. Ron DeSantis has been one of the dumber governers…

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