Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by airplane noise

Re:Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by ... by wildmusings on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:06AM (#18793464)

Your story is a great illustration of how accurate data can lead people to wrong conclusions. There’s no substitute for a qualitative understanding of the phenomenon being studied.

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Re:Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by ... by lostlogin on Monday December 31, 2018 @05:42AM (#18793983)

I’ve always preferred quantitative data, though the pros and cons of each were explained to me by a physicist who was hardly non-biased.

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Re:Button offers instant gratification for those plagued by ... by dwaltrip on Monday December 31, 2018 @11:32AM (#18795290)

All data has limitations and context which must be understood, or else one may reach wrong conclusions. I think the limitations of quantitative data are often not properly acknowledged. Of course, data can be still be very useful.

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