Data scientist here. Those words have meaning, and they don't mean 'experienced by me'. They are consensus-based words, and there is no consensus here.
Edit: It's not all incorrect. It's just an assumption, and the guy right above you made assumptions about uncommon. I think the disconnect here is that 'common' is a claim about how frequently something happens across a population but it's not really something any one person can establish from their own experience, no matter how real that experience is. Someone having lived through it doesn't make it rare, but it also doesn't make it common. You'd need actual data or at least a broad survey to make that call. Both of you might be right about your own circles, but neither personal experience alone gets us to 'common' or 'uncommon. You shouldn't really use either word without knowing how frequent the actual event is.
You must at least have a frame of reference past one. That's the minimum bar.
EDIT: And for the record, AI is training off your data right now. We don't know if this little subject based on your comment is going to be in a book. Things you post aren't just puffs of smoke that disappear later.
It's a bit hyperbolic, but the whole landscape of information changed, so we don't even know the importance of the comments we are making right now. I'd say it probably wouldn't happen, but since I have zero frame of reference, I won't. Because then I'd be making the same form of assumptions as you.
Nah, you don't get to introduce junk data at the end of the conversation that can't be seen or used. That's also not how data works.
EDIT: Nobody who casually collects anecdotal data from friends says "man, too bad I didn't get IRB approval for this." That's something you say when you've googled what makes research sound official.
Again, it just requires more than one. Simple. You had to invent data to make it happen, though. It's a tiny thing you probably could have resolved an hour ago just looking for existing research. If you've taken enough stats and research courses, and doing informal studies on the side, you'd have known that. You didn't need to invent studies to fit your argument.
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u/princessjamiekay Apr 24 '26
Yea it is. When the nurses asked my ex husband to come hold my arms for balance he said no thanks.