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It's not surprising at all. There are always many arbitrary choices to make and many things that can go wrong if you try to make conclusions from data. Even wor
by jltsiren 4y ago
It's not surprising at all. There are always many arbitrary choices to make and many things that can go wrong if you try to make conclusions from data. Even worse if you try to automate making the conclusions. And because the data you have has often been derived from lower-level data, many arbitrary choices have already been made and many things have already gone wrong.
On good days, I find it a small miracle that we can sometimes make justified conclusions from data. On bad days, it feels that making conclusions from data is storytelling, not science.
- a1369209993 4y ago> On good days, I find it a small miracle that we can sometimes make justified conclusions from data. On bad days, it feels that making conclusions from data is storytelling, not science. If you dig far enough down the rabbithole, you eventually find that the numbers are being pulled out of someone's proverbial ass. But pulling numbers out of your ass and using them to make a conclusion is a lot better than pulling a conclusion out of your ass and using it to make numbers.