Harold Jarche on Nostr: "When high-powered people want to rely on data as truth, they don’t want to be ...
"When high-powered people want to rely on data as truth, they don’t want to be faced with confidence intervals or error bars. They want to be told that the data are reliable, by which they mean accurate, by which they mean a perfect representation of whatever they wanted to measure. Ignorance is bliss. It’s also political.” 2/2
https://jarche.com/2021/11/data-are-never-neutral/Published at
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