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That's horrifying, my litmus test for data scientists is whether they acknowledge KPI's are imperfect measures. In my experience, data scientists that come fro
by iaw 5y ago
That's horrifying, my litmus test for data scientists is whether they acknowledge KPI's are imperfect measures. In my experience, data scientists that come from hard science backgrounds (e.g. Physics and Biostats) tend to be much more open minded to the idea that there isn't a "perfect" statistical measure.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoRelative to what background exactly? Like I'd agree that maths/cs people are little naive about error but I can't imagine any data scientist from a social science background thinking that any measure is perfect.
- iaw 5y agoApologies, I rarely see data scientists from social science backgrounds.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoReally? Wow, so when I worked at a FAANG, I would say that soc sci people (broadly defined) made up at least a third of the data science org. Data science is a broad church though, and varies a bunch across companies so it's normal I supppose (though strange to me).