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Originally Posted by nobles_point
Totally agree, unconscious biases turn into answers looking for a question.
Analytics are only as good as the questions they ask. Better questions enable better answers. People are also frequently asked unaware of the difference between descriptive, predictive, & prescriptive data analysis . Fans asks questions like who is better or who will win while teams are going deeper into why a player or team does well or doesn't and when.
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Well said. This is a "big data" issue you see surfacing outside of sports and hockey in the business world. In marketing, for instance, the battle to demarcate between descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics is on-going (and will likely be aided y AI in the near future). I have made suggestions to front offices in the past to read books on these topics, including Winning With Data and Superforecasters.