June 14, 2020
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Reality vs. Narrative
Today's world is overloaded with data and information yet lacking in knowledge and wisdom. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish between reality and narrative. Remember wisdom of Freeman Dyson:
"In the modern world, science and society often interact in a perverse way. We live in a technological society, and technology causes political problems. The politicians and the public expect science to provide answers to the problems. Scientific experts are paid and encouraged to provide answers. The public does not have much use for a scientist who says, “Sorry, but we don’t know.” The public prefers to listen to scientists who give confident answers to questions and make confident predictions of what will happen as a result of human activities. So it happens that the experts who talk publicly about politically contentious questions tend to speak more clearly than they think. They make confident predictions about the future, and end up believing their own predictions. Their predictions become dogmas which they do not question. The public is led to believe that the fashionable scientific dogmas are true, and it may sometimes happen that they are wrong. That is why heretics who question the dogmas are needed."
New Data Science News Articles:
- Results of Europe’s Lockdown Experiment
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- Sweden COVID19 Strategy Now World’s
- Report Denouncing Lockdown Strategy
New Books from DSA Store:
- Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer
- Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference & Prediction
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New DSA Resources:
- What You See and What You Don’t See: The Hidden Moments of a Probability Distribution
- Critically Examining the Neural Hype
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