The Uneven Pulse of Time: How Irregular Measurement Rhythms Skew Conclusions and What to Do About It
Imagine an interpreter who gets distracted by every rustle in the hall. The more rustles, the more errors in the translation, even though the meaning of the speech hasn't changed. The same happens with data: if measurements are unevenly spaced, standard analytical tools start "hearing" changes that never occurred in the underlying process.