Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Difficulties in the interpretation of data

This gif nicely shows how two people can look at the same data and come to radically different conclusions.


It comes from this website, and it raises a really interesting point about how science is conducted and how there can sometimes be a real art in moving from data to conclusions about that data.

h/t to Pharyngula

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