Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Data

    data

    different name.

    ?

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• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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