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ooopsmymistake t1_itzgd0a wrote

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>Self-reporting data is always corrupt. > >Ask a thousand people to ‘rate their pain out of ten’ when experiencing similar levels of pain (injury); and you’ll get ten thousand different answers.

There are statistical tools to get rid of a lot of the problems self-reporting data faces.

Also your example would probably be normally distributed.

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