Krudler@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoBe The Sunshine ☀️lemmy.worldimagemessage-square266linkfedilinkarrow-up1487arrow-down113
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minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down4·8 days ago‘data points aren’t data’
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·8 days 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.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·8 days ago Data data different name. ?
minus-squareHacksaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·8 days 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.
‘data points aren’t data’
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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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.