Wisdom

Partial data gets read as the whole story

Quote

No matter how many qualifiers you put on it, some people are going to look at it and say, okay, that's the whole story.

Episode 58: we got activity in the pub. It's all the work I have to do on Fridays (approx., from transcript intro) 00:51:47 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Discussing a dataset on podcast hosting share, Dave admits his bias: he doesn't want it to be accurate. His bigger worry is that no data like this tells the whole picture of a fragmented open RSS ecosystem, and however many qualifiers you add, some people will treat it as the full story.