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I don't know what's more worrying, - the turn everything into data as an industry, or how happy individuals apparently are to apply it to themselves. Take this

by hurin 12y ago

I don't know what's more worrying, - the turn everything into data as an industry, or how happy individuals apparently are to apply it to themselves. Take this with a grain of salt. The statistics of course (well on a larger scale than this article could take aren't wrong) but that an individual is ready primarily to evaluate their own choices in terms of them is rather scary.

girvo 12y ago
Did you read her conclusion? It's not all that serious, just a cute bit of fun. Nothing wrong with that. Besides, everything is data already; regular boring introspection is just "data mining" with terrible sample sizes because of memory, and bad statistics because of biases. ;)
- hurin 12y ago
  I wasn't specifically referring to her analysis, indeed as you point out with those sample sizes and the number of potential conflating factors it's unlikely this data is statistically worth anything - I was commenting more on the general approach, of evaluating ones actions or choices within the context of a statistical framework.