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Data is also overrated. Data is often highly convoluted, with multiple causes in one correlation. We want to understand the way things work, and correlation ca
by wouldbecouldbe 4y ago
Data is also overrated. Data is often highly convoluted, with multiple causes in one correlation.
We want to understand the way things work, and correlation can give us hints. But so can individual experience. But "data" is often used as the truth.
So yeah individual experience here is valid. Hunger is not as simple as every hour you eat you get more hungry, and that's valid to deduct from personal experience.
- walnutclosefarm 4y agoData is indeed often opaque, but it's the only way you can make a rigorous argument that something is characteristic of the natural world. To borrow a phrase, data driven conclusion on a hypothesis are the worst form of conclusion, except for all the other methods you can name.
- wouldbecouldbe 4y agoNo its not, thats exactly my point. You cant make a conclusion like that at all. It just points you that there might be recurring charateristic but not that there actually is one or what it is.