Although, as sceptics of the project have pointed out, U-Multirank will use the same,
flawed data sources as existing league tables, the results will at least be tailored to the user.
Not exact matches
Mann then went on to say that we hadn't noticed the
flaws in the
data set — this after we had written over 20 pages describing
data problems in the MBH98 in miscroscopic detail and went to considerable lengths to re-collate most of the
data from original
sources.
Yes, the piece is journalistically
flawed (the error, the cliche as lede, the use of a single
source for
data and the lack of a «nut graph» — indeed the article seems to question its own premise in the sections I bolded above).
But a true pragmatist should recognize that Facebook's historic approach to privacy, which gives users fine - grained control over various
data sources and uses through a complex array of settings, has been deeply
flawed.
If the
source data in those records are
flawed, the resulting estimate is likely
flawed too.