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There’s always a balance to be struck between what the actual science says and what will be manageable as law. Like, sure the science could say that if the tem
by SirSourdough 5y ago
There’s always a balance to be struck between what the actual science says and what will be manageable as law.
Like, sure the science could say that if the temperature range is between 10-15c you can safely gather with 20, 15-17c only 15, and 17c+ only 10. But that’s probably not the policy that is going out to the public because it’s too hard for people to actually live with and enforce.
Plus most of the purely scientific considerations were bastardized when they came in contact with political and economic considerations before being made into policy.
- gompertz 5y agoIt's interesting, as I've heard the same reasoning with taxation too. We can have all these sophisticated statistical models, risk models, and so forth; yet what ultimately gets produced is a basic tax bracket step scale that (hopefully) anyone can understand. So is there actually academic research on how to best 'dummy down' complex models for society? Or is it end of day the actuaries, statisticians, and mathematicians tell policy makers their findings and some polysci major just approximates from there?