Pattern recognition

Submitted by sarraf on May 18, 2013 - 12:24pm

Graphical display of data helps to form preliminary hypothesis, observe patterns, etc. However, one should be careful in staring too long at a graph. In the words of Carl Sagan,

Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent

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