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> This is what innumeracy looks like. I don't know whether it's innumeracy so much as lack of time, and also the specific expertise (not just ability to unders
by Brakenshire 9y ago
> This is what innumeracy looks like.
I don't know whether it's innumeracy so much as lack of time, and also the specific expertise (not just ability to understand numbers, but expertise in this specific area) to be able to understand the information. For a general reporter (not an 'energy correspondent' or something similar) the article you're proposing would take at least a week of study and research, probably more, this 'he said, she said' stuff can be knocked off in a few hours.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoNot only that, but the results couldn't fit in a tweet so people could retweet it over and over again like masturbating monkeys, so in the mind of legacy media, why produce it?
- throwaway76543 9y agoIt's innumeracy. I don't need to know anything about the subject matter to understand why the concepts, numbers and relationships mentioned above are important. In fact, I am absolutely not a solar expert -- I have no expertise in this specific area -- and I know that I am entirely qualified to understand the basics of load variation over time.
- andreyf 9y agoImagine understanding this was something you were assigned at work. What would you ask first? I am a web programmer with no specialty in any of this, but here's my top list: - what's min / max usage and production? - density plot of usage throughout the state - density plot of usage over typical 24h? typical 356d? - what kind of special events w.r.t. usage are there? - cost of storage, improvement over past decade? - cost of transport, improvements? This is off the top of my head, non-expert studied math but never professionally. How many of these are answered in the article?