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Some interesting psychology going on around vaccine rollout. UK rollout is among the fastest in the world right now, but last night I saw a self-flagellating piece comparing UK rollout unfavourably to Israel...
... Scotland is doing better than almost anywhwere in the world. But not as well as England. I see a lot of melting down about that...
...my American friends are comparing themselves to UK and Israel and conclude the US rollout is a disaster. Yet US has vaccinated 4x as many per person as France. 3x as many as Germany...
...and all of these countries are doing spectacularly well compared to India - which is the largest manfucturer of vaccines on the planet... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-per-capita?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2021-02-01®ion=World
...don't get me wrong. People in Scotland have every right to ask why they are behind England. All of us should learn from Israel. And ultimately, we're not in a race against each other - we're in a race against the virus...
...but that said, the ability of people to stare directly at success and declare it to be failure because someone else is having even greater success?
It's something we should all beware.
It's something we should all beware.
(In other news, last night I looked at my friend @AdamMGrant 's deserved smash hit - Top 10 on Amazon US - published the same day as "The Data Detective". I immediately asked myself what I and my publishers had done wrong. This sort of silly thinking seems inescapable!)
Adam's brilliant book is here: https://amzn.to/3aon6uy
My book is here: https://timharford.com/books/datadetective/
My book is here: https://timharford.com/books/datadetective/
