Meanings
plural data-phobes
- One who is data phobic.
At this point, the hard-core "data-phobes" are probably muttering, "These guys can't fool me. There's math involved in statistics."
1984, John Waite Bowers, John A. Courtright, Communication research methods, page 1332 more examples
Authors may even ignore these features because they did not notice them, may have run out of time, may be data-phobes themselves, or may not be very good analysts (that's possible!).
1992, Erickson, Understanding Data, →ISBN, pages 1–2As a data scientist, you still need to be mindful to what is going on around you – like when the CEO who loves data is replaced with a data-phobe.
2018, Daniel A. McGrath, Quantitative Analysis for System Applications, →ISBN
Origin
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