"I only believe those statistics that I falsified myself," Winston Churchill once said. In times of the Corona crisis, this quotation is of unprecedented topicality. We all are now getting fed with an uncountable ammount of numbers. What do these numbers really tell? People are so easy to seduce when they cannot assign numbers. It's … Continue reading Coronavirus: The Manipulation
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Coronavirus: First results
Some weeks ago the Austrian Government ordered a study at the Viennese SORA Institute. SORA is an Institute for Social Research and best known for its precise projections on Election Days. So the Ministry of Research ordered a study to calculate how many cases of COVID-19 can be estimated in Austria. SORA took a representative … Continue reading Coronavirus: First results
