[Link] - Coronavirus smell loss 'different from cold and flu'

Could be useful to know where this symptom occurs in a household.

Edited by BlueJay (20 Aug 2020 2.43pm)

This Government hasn't got anything right at all that I can see, has changed it's mind at very short notice on lots of issues and has also lied to us.

I don't remember anything quite as dramatic in the past, where mistake upon mistake is made. Yet still 42% of people would vote for them again. Nowt so queer as folk.

And the 'couldn't organise excessive libation in a wallop manufacturing emporium' crew are on yours. The constant problem with the current government is that it doesn't listen very well and never achieves buy-in before its next half-baked and ill considered move.

A bunch of arrogant and inexperienced people put in way above their heads.

What did they expect? Maybe they could have engaged school by school over the past few weeks to get the teachers to be realistic instead of relying on an algorithm that could never have been fully fair. Or picked on those schools with a bad history of getting their estimated grades wrong, I am sure that data is available from the Universities

What is frustrating is that many schools were extremely thorough and cautious in their marks. But some will have been lazy, set mocks based on recent exams that were easy to guess, erred on the side of generosity or just had poor teachers with weak judgement.

It's all about raw data, and how it is collected. That is the crucial phase. Then comes the manipulation of data (statistics), to demonstrate what you want.

The collection of data, and acknowledgment of its limitations is of the highest magnitude. No point publishing anything (for example) if you are only doing 3 tests a day, in remote locations

It's all about collection of raw data

'Shoddy' and 'bvII5hIt" spring to mind

I disengage, I turn the page.

Exactly. It just won’t happen here. But the lefties don’t get it. They think everyone is like them or in secure positions.

COYP

Sure, I pretty much agree with all of that.

The fact that the Tories are perhaps marginally better at running departments than Labour's idealogs is faint praise from me and I have no issues with the reality that the real source of the incompetence lies within the system......which the Tories have been in charge far more years than Labour.

You are kinder concerning the schools than I am. When the average is a whopping 9 percent higher between predicted and last year's reality serious questions need to be asked.

Teachers aren't there to be generous to students, they are there to be robust and represent the system...but we know that in truth, the system doesn't reward robust teachers and it incentivizes teachers to look for anyway they can to give good grades rather than pure reality.

What this shows is what I was aware of anyway...a cultural generational malaise within the system, which focuses far too much upon empathy and not enough upon meritocracy.

It's all smiles until the day the bridge you're crossing falls down....a bit melodramatic perhaps but not unprecedented in reality.

Edited by Stirlingsays (20 Aug 2020 8.02pm)

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