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Cherrypicking causes biases [0]. A highly non-random distribution of data points is the issue here. No one has to remove other restaurants, it's just that there
by soheil 6y ago
Cherrypicking causes biases [0]. A highly non-random distribution of data points is the issue here. No one has to remove other restaurants, it's just that there could be 10x more effort put in to add detailed McDonald data points.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#In_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#In_science
- maxerickson 6y agoOSM has lots of other sources of bias, so it isn't really an additional problem. For instance, someone has enthusiastically mapped Coke County, Texas: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/32.083/-98.465 https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/32.083/-98.465 I haven't looked into it, but chances are it is just a result of them living there, and it creates a huge bias in the data in Texas.