Chakrabortty takes issue with our annual conference: "Many academics haven't begun digging into the banking crisis, but instead ploughed on with researching – to pick examples from the last British Sociological Association conference – the real-ale industry".
They would be prevented from cherry picking examples, from reporting speculation as fact, from deliberately misrepresenting politicians' positions, from ignoring inconvenient facts, and from any of the myriad other helpful techniques of false equivalency that Brooks's Law makes possible.
Conversely, under-sampling randomly picks examples from the majority class until the number of examples matches the size of the minority class.
I tried to figure out how this happened concretely and picked two examples from the TheStreet.com, a well known industry watcher and participant.
It allows you to browse different Spaces, which are basically panoramic images of locations like a Taoist temple in the Philippines and an ice cave in Vermont (to pick two examples from Roundme's front page).
To pick an example from my local NPR station, is there anyone who would pay $144 just because it's a great deal on a KQED hoodie?
Oscar Whiskey and Blackstairmountain, to pick just two examples from the top of the betting, have each raced just once over hurdles.
To pick just 10 examples from recent years, it's hard to imagine how you could opine on the future of literature without having played the brilliantly characterful and fourth-wall breaking Portal, the sombre and engrossing Papers, Please, or the dazzlingly surreal exploration of the American subconscious, Kentucky Route Zero.
First, to avoid biases, 4942 negative examples were picked randomly from non-BCEs (22835), which is equivalent to one third of all BCEs (IgG, IgE, and IgA).
Akhtar Ali, for example, was picked up from the street at around 4pm on September 1st at a checkpoint in Mingora.
