Rukmini Shrinivasan on What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us
Ideas of India
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Data Journalism Is a Problem, Right?
Journalism has two additional biases, rits. One is what shelling used to call the statistical life visis the human life rit value of that. The second problem is the bias in favor of outliers, right? I mean, the classic rule of journalism is, you don't want the dog by its man's story. We've seen all of this sort of outliarism, and this sort of search for the most outlandish take on the same set of things. And if there was a particular model of fixing it, i'm not sure that that's immersed in the ari.
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