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If it comes down to data or your gut, trust the data. Your gut is an emotional manipulator.
by santoshalper 5y ago
If it comes down to data or your gut, trust the data. Your gut is an emotional manipulator.
- berberous 5y agoIf many people shoplift an item here and there, versus come in as a gang of 20 and steal items by the garbage bag, even if the $ values are equal, the latter is qualitatively different and has lasting effects that the former does not and may not immediately be apparent in the data collected
- bjt2n3904 5y agoAnd data is pure, unbiased, and accurately reflects the matter at hand!
- seneca 5y ago> If it comes down to data or your gut, trust the data. Your gut is an emotional manipulator. I don't disagree with you in theory, but in practice much of the "data" we get is also a manipulator. Lies, damned lies, and statistics and all that.
- slibhb 5y agoWhat if there's no good argument from data that non-violent crime is bad? Should we just accept it? When you see someone steal something, it's like hearing a discordant note in a song. It makes you feel bad. I think that feeling is to some degree responsible for all social harmony and we really have no choice but to trust it.
- pessimizer 5y agoWorse, people are trained and paid to manipulate your guts. Don't be a mark. ----- edit: All confidence games rely on people who put their guts first. Trust me. No, don't, really. There are actual numbers you can consult, and the methods they used to compile those numbers are transparent and can be objected to.