Remember the most important part of statistics that’s not in the textbooks?
Here it comes again! In this case it’s not junk statistics claiming that North Korea is a democracy, it’s fake blocks in the NBA. Chris Thompson has the story.
Maybe the shredder guy can look into this one; it seems he’s already an authority on questionable basketball statistics as well as dishonesty more generally.
Fake basketball stats are definitely a problem but this particular article is actually tongue in cheek. The blocks are real but seemingly impossible for anyone but the player in question to pull off.
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Yes, I could tell that the linked article was joking!
Since I don’t know anything about basketball I sure could not tell that it was a joke, although towards the end there were jokes about some classic computer game or video game.
Fake? https://twitter.com/kirkgoldsberry/status/1619419346677399553
… more like data tends to be just noisy.
This had me going for a minute.
The post does bring to mind the issue of selective scrutiny and the need for control comparisons. I can’t view the reddit post because r/nba is now private, but I wonder if the reddit user went to the trouble of duplicating their analysis using other players to see what the baseline rate of misattributed blocks is.
I first read it as “fake [data scandal].” Then I realized it could mean [fake data] scandal. Now I see that it actually is “fake [data scandal]”.