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>blindly trusting "the data" This phrase is not coherent. Doing something blindly would literally be to do something without data.
by ak4g 10y ago
>blindly trusting "the data"
This phrase is not coherent.
Doing something blindly would literally be to do something without data.
- vowelless 10y agoNot always. Data can quite often completely mislead us. See Simpsons paradox for an example.
- anamoulous 10y agoFolks can data dredge and present their results as significant. Lay people trust the conclusions. They had the data, but they didn't understand that the data presents a narrow view. They trust it blindly. Worse are the people that treat conclusions drawn from polling and surveys as scientifically rigorous. Happens all the time with Vox, NYT, Quartz, you-name-it articles. Policy is enacted from information like this.