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data-phobe

data-phobe noun: one who is data phobic.

Noun

data-phobe (plural data-phobes)

  1. One who is data phobic.
    • At this point, the hard-core "data-phobes" are probably muttering, "These guys can't fool me. There's math involved in statistics."1984, John Waite Bowers, John A. Courtright, Communication research methods, page 133
    • Authors may even ignore these features because they did not notice them, may have run out of time, may be data-phobes themselves, or may not be very good analysts (that's possible!).1992, Erickson, Understanding Data, →ISBN, pages 1–2

Forms of data-phobe

pluraldata-phobes

Origin of data-phobe

From data + -phobe.

Questions about data-phobe

What does data-phobe mean?
Data-phobe means one who is data phobic.
What part of speech is data-phobe?
Data-phobe is a noun.
What is the plural of data-phobe?
The plural of data-phobe is data-phobes.

Words near data-phobe in the dictionary

  1. data-bound
  2. data-driven
  3. data-driven programming
  4. data-mining
  5. data-oriented
  6. data-phobe
  7. data-phobes
  8. data-phobic
  9. data-point
  10. data-points
  11. data-processing

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