<p>Technical statistical usage sometimes departs from colloquial English usage.  (Examples abound, such as the transitive use of "to learn" in the ML community and the use of singular nouns among statisticians to refer to entire families of distributions.  And that's not even touching on the severely technical meanings of "confidence," "error," "fit," "probability," "sample," and so on!  <em>Statistics is a foreign language,</em> no matter what your native tongue might be.)</p>

<p>Thus, to the extent a question might require statistical/ML expertise to understand or answer, and to the extent its answer might differ from colloquial usage, I think such questions are on topic.  As a moderator, all I ask is that any <em>answers</em> supply objective arguments and refer to authoritative references for support.</p>
