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minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·11 hours ago‘data points aren’t data’
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours 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-squareHacksaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·9 hours 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.
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.