Reporters routinely cherry-pick data out of context, confuse weather with climate, assume events disprove trends, fail to disaggregate blips in statistics and confuse the medium and long-term, and focus on detail, ignoring the bigger picture.
'Like any other poll, each campaign is going to try to pick out data that helps their cause,' said Joe Lenski, executive vice president of Edison Research….He said Sanders' numbers were driven by dramatic differences in Hispanics by age.
James Webb, the firm's managing director, does counter that "relying solely on technology to pick out specific data points would run the risk of the exclusion of certain people who may not have presented the information in a specific way", which is why the human element in recruiting frequently outweighs the data.
Based on Rand calculation, a statistical method was used to pick out the data points (genes) for classifier design.
It can also pick out key data like dates and deal amounts and let you set action items to follow up on.
It is left to the reader to pick out these data from other figures.
"Our society is a veritable crazy quilt of contradictory practices and beliefs," Komarovsky wrote, about gender roles, in 1953, and, as the revisionists have demonstrated, if you pick out the right data you can identify trends in the direction of gender equality in the nineteen-fifties.
I saw firsthand how national security depends on our ability to interpret and manage information and how picking out the right data can be like trying to sip water from a fire hose.
What you need is larger trends and ways of picking out important data points, such as areas likely to develop precipitation, or where the beginnings of movement suggest a cold front moving in.
116 With hindsight, it is easy to pick out the gaps in data or logic in the programs that we have reviewed, but some of the inconsistencies were known at the time.
