Metadata
- Author: Roger Peng
- Full Title:: Thinking About Failure in Data Analysis
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Analysis,
- URL:: https://simplystatistics.org/posts/2021-11-10-thinking-about-failure-in-data-analysis/
- Finished date:: 2024-11-20
Highlights
In general, I think the things we teach about statistics and data analysis in the classroom (textbook knowledge, so to speak) are focused around preventing verification failure. Given a set of requirements, we’d like people to know how to build the widget with the right tools and to be knowledgeable about the assumptions they are making. In my experience, the things that are taught “outside the classroom” are focused on preventing validation failure. Here, we want people to know whether they are building something useful and not simply building something that is “correct”. (View Highlight)