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by disgruntledphd2 1742 days ago
Relative to what background exactly?

Like I'd agree that maths/cs people are little naive about error but I can't imagine any data scientist from a social science background thinking that any measure is perfect.

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Apologies, I rarely see data scientists from social science backgrounds.
Really?

Wow, so when I worked at a FAANG, I would say that soc sci people (broadly defined) made up at least a third of the data science org. Data science is a broad church though, and varies a bunch across companies so it's normal I supppose (though strange to me).