Data and information (was "What is feminist geography?")

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From: STGG8004
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 09:41

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Christopher Pound writes:

>         Frex, I'm talking about the thoroughly historicizable
> assumption that data exist apart from the theory that explains them and that
                  ^^^^
I think we have a confusion of terminology here? "Data" are just raw facts,
numbers, observations, statistics. So of course they exist apart from any
theory. They are the raw materials which are then processed in order to
extract information. This information requires some sort of context for it
to be meaningful to the analyst, so is very likely to be dependent on a
theoretical framework. But not the data according to my understanding
of the term.

Darius Bartlett

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