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Data without context is not useful.

  Data (alone) = Noise
  Data + Context = Information
  Experimentation + Error = Experience
  Information + Experience = Knowledge
  Knowledge + Humility = Wisdom


What do you call the injection of ideological excuses into data?


You mean like bending SNAP data to somehow fit your picture of what poor people are like?


Or making wild generalizations about how men in Oregon only work in farming and fishing when those industries actually only comprise less than 10% or the workforce.

I don't think folk should bother debating with this user, I don't think they're conversing in good faith.


It seems like the entirety of his experience of Oregon is within a 10 mile radius of Coos Bay.


Not sure, since that's not what we were discussing.




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