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Is the UC Berkeley case a good example of the importance of normalizing data before analyzing? Where things need to be put on a level playing field and handicap
by andirk 3y ago
Is the UC Berkeley case a good example of the importance of normalizing data before analyzing? Where things need to be put on a level playing field and handicaps applied to remove auxiliary noise.
- pdonis 3y agoNormalizing data doesn't fix the issue in the UC Berkeley case, because you still have to pick what to normalize over: do you normalize over the entire university, or separately over each department? The answer to questions like that can't be found in the data. You have to go look at how the university admission process actually works, and what roles the university vs. the individual departments play in it.