Not exact matches
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.
«Rarely has so
much effort been made to collect so
much intrusive and
irrelevant data,» said Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.
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!
Other
data are often just noise: For example, it's interesting that children enrolled in Head Start may be less likely to take to crime as adults, but it's pretty
much irrelevant to judging the efficacy of an expensive government program that's failed to show
much in terms of student performance.
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.»
Irrelevant data should be avoided as
much as possible.