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“The map is not the territory”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2014

Fred L. Bookstein*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, A-1091 Vienna, Austria, and Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. fred.bookstein@univie.ac.at

Abstract

Bentley et al.’s claim that their “map … captures the essence of decision making” (target article, Abstract) is deconstructed and shown to originate in a serious misunderstanding of the role of principal components and statistical graphics in the generation of pattern claims and hypotheses from profile data. Three alternative maps are offered, each with its radiation of further investigations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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