Pam Baker, who is is author of the book Data Divination: Big Data Strategies says while there are actually clear cut instances where data points to a direct answer, this isn't always the case.
An internet search brought me just one clear-cut instance of a footballer appearing to doing something equivalent to a batsman walking.
An interesting topic on the borderline of logic and computer science is mechanical theorem proving, which derives some of its interest from being a clear-cut instance of the problems of artificial intelligence, especially of the problems of realizing various heuristic modes of thinking on computers.
An even more clear-cut instance can be found on my side of the Atlantic, in the country formerly known as Great Britain, where Brexit is proving to be the ultimate test case of a country digging a hole, starting to apprehend how dank it is down there, yet stubbornly continuing to dig.
The 9/11 first responders issue was a clear-cut instance of the needs of corporations taking precedence over the needs of Americans.
Critics say that some death-penalty cases portrayed in "The Exonerated," being shown on Court TV tonight, are not clear-cut instances of the wrongfully accused being cleared.
Let's reserve the word racist, he suggests, for clear-cut instances of bigotry, and address more subtle problems of racial prejudice as we do air pollution, instead of rape or murder.
A bit more serious is Putnam's (1962) objection drawing on the application of apparently clear-cut instances of observation concepts to submicroscopic particles.
Hence, there are clear-cut instances of observation concepts that apply to unobservable entities, which does not seem acceptable (cf. Putnam 1962).
We decided to use this distinction although it cannot be applied to all placebo interventions in a clear cut way – for instance, diagnostic placebo interventions cannot easily be attributed to either category.
