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It's funny because it took philosophy centuries to see that—and even now, the scientific method is showing limitations; its too difficult to perform in the soci
by jhanschoo 9y ago
It's funny because it took philosophy centuries to see that—and even now, the scientific method is showing limitations; its too difficult to perform in the social sciences and the less rigorous method of extracting trends off big data also often has great value.
- eli_gottlieb 9y ago"Trends off big data" can be very useful in a machine-learning sense, if you want to predict very accurately, but you're ok with being far off when you do make a mistake. They're not very useful at all for designing interventions, which in the end is more what we care about.