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by loganbyers 1553 days ago
I agree context and intricacies are everything. On your point about GFW, I know the team is very conscious and attentive to communicating what the data means.

This link might be helpful: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/help/map/faqs/

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Thanks for the link; that's helpful. It also confirms that the worry that indeed it's quite tricky to interpret this data; even with the best of intentions errors are quite plausible.

It's still interesting, it just means we should see these efforts as narrow, potentially distorted perspectives on the ground truth; and therefore we need to remain open to the fact that other reasonable perspectives might show different trends.