Practice question · Multiple choice
Why is "metadata is an argument" more than a slogan?
Hints
- Someone chose the columns for gender, race, occupation, status.
- What happens to that choice once ten thousand rows are entered?
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A. Every field imposes a classification the sources may not share
Why
The schema is an interpretation made before any analysis begins, and it disappears into the data. Once entered, it stops looking like a decision and starts looking like a finding you can plot.
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