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>blindly trusting "the data"

This phrase is not coherent.

Doing something blindly would literally be to do something without data.




Folks can data dredge and present their results as significant. Lay people trust the conclusions. They had the data, but they didn't understand that the data presents a narrow view. They trust it blindly.

Worse are the people that treat conclusions drawn from polling and surveys as scientifically rigorous.

Happens all the time with Vox, NYT, Quartz, you-name-it articles. Policy is enacted from information like this.


Not always. Data can quite often completely mislead us. See Simpsons paradox for an example.




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