Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma...
by dboreham on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:09PM
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>Isn’t it either the right metric or not?
To illustrate, perhaps an example closer to home:
If someone asked you to tell them "how many lines of code in this project?" you'd start wondering things like "do I count comments?", "do I count dependent libraries?", "perhaps some metric that is equivalent of a statement count but not strictly counting lines?" and on and on.
Statistical measures are like that. Someone with a decent knowledge of the problem space came up with the best stab at how to characterize the data.
To illustrate, perhaps an example closer to home:
If someone asked you to tell them "how many lines of code in this project?" you'd start wondering things like "do I count comments?", "do I count dependent libraries?", "perhaps some metric that is equivalent of a statement count but not strictly counting lines?" and on and on.
Statistical measures are like that. Someone with a decent knowledge of the problem space came up with the best stab at how to characterize the data.