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Data is frequently collected with some kind of bias.


Better data with possible bias than definitively bias with no data.


> Data is frequently collected with some kind of bias.

you can't look at electrons without some sort of bias; such is the nature of all research.

however "data is biased", and the implied "statistics are racist / classist / sexist" etc., is most often used by those who don't want to see what the data lays out, and have no other way to discredit it.




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