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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the "story".

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not to mention that the story quite obviously does not fit the data at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain's joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there's a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house