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I've always considered 'raw data' to be data before interpretation or processing. When you collect data, you just collect them. You collect every bit of data yo
by grawprog 8y ago
I've always considered 'raw data' to be data before interpretation or processing. When you collect data, you just collect them. You collect every bit of data you can, whether it's necessarily useful or not. After you've processed it and gotten the values useful to whatever study you're doing the data becomes 'interpreted data'. You likely leave out data that are unrelated or not pertinent to the study being conducted and usually includes data acquired after processing, means, medians, standard deviations etc.
Usually raw data is available but not included in it's entirety in reports. The dat included in reports will typically be data after processing. This has just always been my experience with the way studies and such tend to be carried out.