Taking the opening post at face value and following it one step further. A dataset is only useful if the collection method is described alongside it. Numbers without a protocol are a list rather than data.
Posting this under the heading it deserves: Cleaning a self-reported dataset and what you throw away — what changed since Everything below is what sits behind that.
What changes if the standard account of Cleaning a self-reported dataset is wrong? I ask because I have been treating it as settled and I noticed this week that I could not say why.
Working through the consequences rather than the evidence, since others here are better placed on the evidence.
Taking the opening post at face value and following it one step further.
A dataset is only useful if the collection method is described alongside it. Numbers without a protocol are a list rather than data.
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About the Datasets category
Community-collected datasets, their collection methods, and their limitations. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a…
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Coming back to: A community side-effect dataset, with its response rate and biases
On the subject in the title: A community side-effect dataset, with its response rate and biases Working notes rather than a conclusion. Reading back through what has been written here about community…
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Sample size in a voluntary survey: the selection problem
Posting this under the heading it deserves: Sample size in a voluntary survey: the selection problem Everything below is what sits behind that. Sample size: setting out the arithmetic in full, because I have…
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Revisiting: Sample size in a voluntary survey: the selection problem
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Aggregated purity results across four services, with caveats
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What to include when your question involves arithmetic
What to include when your question involves arithmetic — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. Counting it rather than describing it, because the count is the…
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Aggregated purity results across four services, with caveats — a second dataset
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Follow-up: Search filters: what is missing
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A staff appointment, and what the role involves
On the subject in the title: A staff appointment, and what the role involves Working notes rather than a conclusion. Asking about staff appointment on behalf of the question I keep seeing asked badly,…
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Shoulders, tangent skims, and defensible integration
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