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Sometimes, in professions like engineering and accounting, it is easy to miss the meaning that numbers actually have. If you only look at the numbers (especially when the numbers are a representation for a data model and not physical data) you can miss the forest for the trees. Reading this article makes me think their statistical model is broken.



And in social science, as we have here.




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