Timeline for Is it off-topic to ask for examples of situations where a lack of statistical understanding causes a problem in data science
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| Jan 23 at 11:37 | comment | added | User1865345 | @J-J-J, that's a good remainder to read that old blog yet accurate stance towards opinionated subjective queries. Thanks for the link. | |
| Jan 23 at 10:34 | answer | added | mkt | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 23 at 9:24 | comment | added | J-J-J | (cont'd) On the other hand, StackExchange seems to incite people to share things that "that happened to [them] personally" stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective . It may be relevant on other SE websites, but I wonder if it's the case on CrossValidated. Relating an experience may illustrate an explanation about statistical issues, but making it the gist of an answer can be problematic due to unverifiability (e.g. if we get some obscure anecdote by an anonymous person on how a statistical mistake supposedly bankrupted a company, we only have one side of the story). | |
| Jan 23 at 8:58 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jan 23 at 8:08 | comment | added | J-J-J | I'm wondering if I entirely agree with other comments. For instance, we do have a popular question about "statistical wins and horror stories", which hasn't been considered as off-topic so far, and feels similar to what you're talking about: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/434128/… . I say "I'm wondering", because I don't have a final opinion on the subject. In particular, a problem I see with asking about personal experiences is that they could be unverifiable, contrary to other types of questions. | |
| Jan 22 at 15:16 | comment | added | Dave | Community wiki? | |
| Jan 22 at 10:36 | vote | accept | Joe King | ||
| Jan 22 at 10:36 | comment | added | Joe King | @whuber Thank you and understood. I thought that might be the case, hence why I asked here first, and now I'm especially pleased that I did since I didn't know about there were chat rooms here - that sounds like a great idea ! Thanks again. JK. | |
| Jan 22 at 1:21 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21 at 21:51 | answer | added | User1865345 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 21 at 18:07 | comment | added | whuber Mod | That doesn't sound on topic to me (for many reasons: lack of focus, no definite answer, opinionated, etc.), but you certainly could discuss it in chat. We could even create a dedicated chat room for the discussion if that would help. | |
| Jan 21 at 17:53 | history | asked | Joe King | CC BY-SA 4.0 |