Joshua's Law: The Data Speaks For Itself. Are You Surprised? - OpenSIPS Trunking Solutions

The data cannot speak for itself.

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Which has so dominated statistics in this century.

The data cannot speak for themselves;

And they never have, in any real problem of inference.

Google finds this paper on pubmed, with this exact quote in title which attributes it to aristotle and newton:

Letting the data speak for itself is a well known phrase with a hard truth:

Data presented on its own rarely communicates meaning for itself.

For most people, its the context behind the numbers, the story, that helps us understand and care to act.

This article explores an historical example of one man's struggle to introduce a simple, lifesaving data insight that rocked the established beliefs of his profession.

From how i'm reading this paper, it sounds like let the data speak for itself means something along the lines of considering various measures across the data without regard to a likelihood function or data generating process.

Examine the content of data solely based on the selective character that was.