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This is the eternal problem with all such metrics. What the data actually says and what someone looking at it thinks it says can be very different things. And y
by Silhouette 3y ago
This is the eternal problem with all such metrics. What the data actually says and what someone looking at it thinks it says can be very different things. And yet decisions will necessarily be made based on the latter and that can lead to bad decisions.
We could all live in a beautiful world with near-total honesty and little need to protect privacy. We just need the entire human race to be reliably fair and reasonable about every possible issue and to make decisions that affect others only based on a complete and entirely accurate set of relevant facts. Shouldn't be too hard.
- gchamonlive 3y agoI think the problem is more fundamental than just what "data says". I think in a sense the way you measure things carry a lot of information, of course, but the resulting data in itself doesn't tell anything without context. A good book that I think illustrates this is How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrel Huff.