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Re: 921 Level of Certainty
Posted by:
dcarpenter (IP Logged)
Date: March 22, 2022 09:00AM
"Data does not provide evidence."
I should be more clear. Data can provide evidence, but not necessarily in all cases. In the context of providing evidence, data is a necessary, but insufficient condition. All evidence is based on data, but not all data is evidence.
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