[Corpora-List] Bad data and its consequences

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi Angus

I agree that the quality of the primary data is important,

but isn't the problem raised in the linked discussion

the assumptions that were made about the primary data,

i.e. the sample-population relationship,

which led to misleading conclusions?



best

Ramesh





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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:28:45 -0500
From: Angus Grieve-Smith <grvsmth at panix.com>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Bad data and its consequences
To: corpora at uib.no

More data is not always better, in linguistics or in any other
science. Here's a good discussion by two economists on the consequences
of bad data:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/01/jerven_on_measu.html

--
-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
Saint John's University
grvsmth at panix.com


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