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Thank you for finding this and bringing it to the attention of the masses. I was just thinking about an article very similar to this publication of the concept,
by Manu40 4y ago
Thank you for finding this and bringing it to the attention of the masses. I was just thinking about an article very similar to this publication of the concept, and was hoping to find the original source to it, because of the importance of the concepts within it.
One of the things that often irritates me when dealing with topics of politics, is the absurdity of trusting graphs and data points that don't extrapolate on where their data for those graphs came from. And when there is some sort of explanation available, it often just leads to the understanding that they did not use a random enough sample to avoid selection biases. Often times, I don't get to see much more of a source on the accuracy of the data other than some variance declaration dictating that there could be a 1-2 degree of variability in the data's accuracy. Something like that.
It's nice that they include that, but I want to know more. Especially in politics, because liars abound are everywhere.
- johntfella 4y agoif you have the article I'd be interested in reading it and saving to my collections. Another more updated book that covers a similar theme published in 2018 is Jerry Muller's Tyranny of Metrics. 1. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174952/the-tyranny-of-metrics https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174952/th...
- Manu40 4y agoActually, that might be it, lol. It was an article that sounds very much like that title. If I can find it again, I will link it to you here. Edit: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317139233_The_Tyranny_of_Data_The_Bright_and_Dark_Sides_of_Data-Driven_Decision-Making_for_Social_Good https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317139233_The_Tyran... Not "The article" in question, but definitely another good addition to the topic at hand. Also vaguely familiar to the article I read long ago, but this is newer. My article I am thinking of came from back in the 2000's I think. I believe it was based on Tyranny of Numbers mostly.
- johntfella 4y agothanks for the article, for the other article I'll scavenge scholar when time permits for that time range of an article on the subject.