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Re:What We Learned from Analyzing 100M Bugs by darkhorn on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:22PM (#17569022)
This is what happens when you hire computer science graduates as data scientists, you have incorrect data that you believe is correct. On the other hand those who hire statisticians are more successfull in collecting and analizing data.
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Re:What We Learned from Analyzing 100M Bugs by hinkley on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:30PM (#17569096)
As one of my better bosses used to say:

    Graphs are for asking better questions, not for making decisions.
When I use graphs to brainstorm ways to verify the existence of a problem, I have a lot better time than when we jump to conclusions. There's something a little rotten in pretty much any projection of data that you try. Building policy off of a graph is a bad, bad plan.

Such a bad plan in fact that Mark Twain has a joke about it.

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