Even archaeological artifacts that have endured natural decay, often thought to be direct and unmistakably obvious data, are not data unless they can be seen as the products of a distant culture that archaeologists seek to understand. Analysis, comparison, and research of diverse transient and non-synchronous phenomena cannot proceed without relying on sufficiently durable representations of them: data for short. ![]() ![]() Moreover, phenomena cannot be compared unless they co-occur. Interviews, public happenings, historical events, natural catastrophes, even scientific experiments do not last long enough for important details to be inspected. In the conduct of science, the reliability of data is an important bottleneck for the construction of theories or scientific conjectures, and for giving reasonable advice.ĭata usually are the primary and therefore the most direct representations of typically transient phenomena that researchers are interested in theorizing, conceptualizing, or explaining. ![]() Linguistically, the word “reliability” occurs in contexts of relying on something, for example, on one’s tools, someone else’s service, given measuring instruments, or data.
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