data-phobe

noun

One who is data phobic.

Meanings

noundata-phobe (plural data-phobes)

plural data-phobes

  1. 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 133
    2 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 1–2

    As 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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