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Dangerous? That's how science... Works? You look for patterns, you get some data, you find more patterns, you create a hypothesis and you test it. What is dang
by piva00 5y ago
Dangerous? That's how science... Works? You look for patterns, you get some data, you find more patterns, you create a hypothesis and you test it.
What is dangerous about analysing data?
Or do you mean it's dangerous to form absolute conclusions just on a subset of available data?
- shadowgovt 5y agoThe danger is that you will come to a conclusion that is objectively wrong. P-hacking is a known issue in many scientific fields. So is drawing conclusions from over collection of data without repetition of the study... As the number of data points you collect approaches infinity, the chance of finding at least one meaningful-seeming correlation approaches 100% because having an unlimited number of data points to bash against each other makes you more likely to observe an improbable correlation.
- vibrato2 5y agoAnd how is being wrong in a data analysis dangerous?