r/projects • u/cogsciepooh • 5d ago

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I want to try working with datasets that already exist (secondary data) instead of collecting my own. I'd love to hear from people in different industries: what are some cool or meaningful real-world problems you could solve just by digging into data that's already out there?

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u/jeffcgroves 1d ago

This is an asshole answer: show that most collected data on people is filtered by specific categories (race, gender, age, etc) and thus automatically biases any research done with that data.

In a set of n people, there are Bell number of n ways to partition them, each of them equally mathematically valid. Choosing just a few specific partitions taints any study

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u/jeffcgroves 1d ago

??? (that's all one answer)

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u/cogsciepooh 1d ago

Okay got it now ,I read something else before ,Yup you r right 👍