JudgeHardcase on Nostr: What I almost never see is any humility regarding uncertainty. There's a chasm of ...
What I almost never see is any humility regarding uncertainty.
There's a chasm of difference between definitive certainty and making a best guess based on the available data. Particularly regarding such a complex system, a high enough uncertainty in the data that's not yet available could easily result in the exact wrong best guess. It seems to me that scientists are capable of a lot more humility in this uncertainty than the scientific journalists who report on them.
There's a chasm of difference between definitive certainty and making a best guess based on the available data. Particularly regarding such a complex system, a high enough uncertainty in the data that's not yet available could easily result in the exact wrong best guess. It seems to me that scientists are capable of a lot more humility in this uncertainty than the scientific journalists who report on them.