[borski]

Data without context is not useful.

  Data (alone) = Noise
  Data + Context = Information
  Experimentation + Error = Experience
  Information + Experience = Knowledge
  Knowledge + Humility = Wisdom

[rayiner]

What do you call the injection of ideological excuses into data?

[jnovek]

You mean like bending SNAP data to somehow fit your picture of what poor people are like?

[jjulius]

Or making wild generalizations about how men in Oregon only work in farming and fishing when those industries actually only comprise less than 10% or the workforce.

I don't think folk should bother debating with this user, I don't think they're conversing in good faith.

[selimthegrim]

It seems like the entirety of his experience of Oregon is within a 10 mile radius of Coos Bay.

[borski]

Not sure, since that's not what we were discussing.