Krudler@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBe The Sunshine ☀️lemmy.worldimagemessage-square246linkfedilinkarrow-up1463
arrow-up1463imageBe The Sunshine ☀️lemmy.worldKrudler@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square246linkfedilink
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months ago‘data points aren’t data’
minus-squareHacksaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoAnecdotes aren’t data points either. For data points to become useful data they have to be standardised across parameters to create valid correlations. Anecdotes are not that.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoOkay but they’re not. Right? Data points by themselves aren’t data. That’s why they have a different name. If you look at one data point, then everyone with red hair is a billionaire because I saw one once.
‘data points aren’t data’
Anecdotes aren’t data points either. For data points to become useful data they have to be standardised across parameters to create valid correlations. Anecdotes are not that.
Okay but they’re not. Right? Data points by themselves aren’t data. That’s why they have a different name.
If you look at one data point, then everyone with red hair is a billionaire because I saw one once.
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