The book is full of examples of how people are easily fooled
by irrelevant data.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, Netflix (along with other big streaming players) is very protective of its viewership
data, which the streaming service claims is made
irrelevant by the fact that Netflix does not rely on ad sales like its traditional TV rivals.
Next time you need to make a decision, spend some time thinking about how much and what type of information you really need before getting carried away
by your research and tripping yourself up
by focusing on
irrelevant data.
Either
by guesswork or
by trawling through loads of enquiry
data, most businesses just do not have the time to search for
irrelevant keywords and simply end up with a few negative words in their campaigns.
And if it were analyzed, it is unlikely that any government would care, because
by that point it would be out of date, even more
irrelevant than it is already, and the departments that analyze public
data are even more resource - strapped than any of the other groups mentioned.
Similarly, many studies that attempt to examine the co-variability between Earth's energy budget and temperature (such as in many of the pieces here at RC concerning the Spencer and Lindzen literature) are only as good as the assumptions made about base state of the atmosphere relative to which changes are measured, the «forcing» that is supposedly driving the changes (which are often just things like ENSO, and are
irrelevant to radiative - induced changes that will be important for the future), and are limited
by short and discontinuous
data records.
For example, there is no way to manipulate the number of wears to reflect the fact that the clothes have been worn before; I have 3 years of
data that I can not incorporate into the stats, which makes all of the calculations done
by the app
irrelevant.
By the time they can measure «student A» from the fourth grade through post secondary and beyond, education changes so much through initiatives and new policies that right there the
data is
irrelevant from one year to the next, and of course from one student to the next!
And efforts to establish some sort of long term warming trend hidden away due to other factors have required a great many very complex and convoluted statistical calesthenics — all of which have been rendered
irrelevant thanks to the recent
data «corrections»
by Karl et al..
Roger is now saying that he never claimed Stefan and Dim did not include the 1880 - 1910
data, but rather that the «the methodology used
by Rahmstorf renders the
data prior to 1910
irrelevant to the mathematics used to generate the top line result».
The environmental community really ought to get its house in order on this issue
by reining in the «dioxin» fear mongers who rely on 20 year old and completely
irrelevant data to intimidate communities considering WTE projects.
Weather you and I agree or disagree it is totally
irrelevant, it is not a matter of the opinion, it is fact that the
data from Jault Gire and LeMouel (1990) and later reinforced
by Bloxham & Jackson (1992) show that 20 % of the Earth's LOD variability is closely correlated to the sunspot magnetic cycle.
The margin of error on the
data is at least 0.1 degrees above or below, meaning that even the dubious GISS «warmest on record»
data showed the «warmest on record»
by such a tiny margin as to be literally statistically and scientifically
irrelevant.
Apart from the pointless and potentially large time cost imposed
by this refusal, the task of aggregating PCMDI
data with which we are unfamiliar would create the risk of introducing
irrelevant collation errors or mismatched averaging steps, leading to superfluous controversy should our results not replicate theirs.
I know of no example whereby the studies of satellite
data by Spencer are pseudoscience, and I suspect you don't either (drum roll to announce your responses with
irrelevant references to Spencer's religious beliefs).
Kudos to him for responding to Goddard, especially after Goddard misrepresented the NSIDC
data in a piece described
by Meier as: -... the article consists almost entirely of misleading,
irrelevant, or erroneous information about Arctic sea ice that add nothing to the understanding of the significant long - term decline that is being observed.»
It should be noted that there are at least the two uses of the word «
data» — information output
by a sensing device or organ that includes both useful and
irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful.
Last month, the online community (that's pretty much the whole world, folks) was stunned
by a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union («EU COJ»), which held individuals had a right to request that Google remove
data «that appear to be inadequate,
irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed and in the light of the time that has elapsed.»
41 Therefore, on the one hand, provided that the selection or arrangement of the
data --- namely, in a case such as the one in the main proceedings,
data corresponding to the date, the time and the identity of teams relating to the different fixtures of the league concerned (see paragraph 26 of the present judgment)- — is an original expression of the creativity of the author of the database, it is
irrelevant for the purpose of assessing the eligibility of the database for the copyright protection provided for
by Directive 96/9 whether or not that selection or arrangement includes «adding important significance» to that
data, as mentioned in section (b) of the referring court's first question.
In fact,
by including
irrelevant data, you dilute your focus and make the recipient wonder if you truly understand the position you are targeting.