Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in...
by jjoonathan on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:03PM
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Let's get some data! Perform discovery!
A self-serving non-answer is even less reliable than a pile of anecdotes. It would be utterly ridiculous to elevate this one to the dignity of "data."
Isn't there a saying for this? "the plural of anecdote is not data"?
This reminds me of the meme that facebook/google is listening in on you without you knowing it, the evidence for which is mountains of anecdotes of people claiming that [product] showed up on their ads shortly after them talking about [product], despite them never expressing an interest in [product] to facebook/google. Despite the mountains of evidence, no one was able to provide a shred of solid evidence of the fact (eg. decompiled binary, network capture, runtime analysis).