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Yeah you can just go talk to them to find out where your local homeless are coming from.
by junofan 3y ago
Yeah you can just go talk to them to find out where your local homeless are coming from.
- krainboltgreene 3y agoI'm glad HN has decided anecdotal evidence is more powerful than data. This is exactly what the tech sector needs to thrive.
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- nwienert 3y agoIt is more powerful. Data is often meaningless without interpretation, missing many dimensions, easily and often manipulated, funded by unknown desires and forces, and generally unreliable. Outside of the hardest of sciences it’s worse than worthless. Meanwhile a single sharp person who lives in a city and interacts with the right intersection of people will tell you closer to the truth than even the better quality studies or media outlets. To think otherwise is imo foolish.
- krainboltgreene 3y agoYou're right it's much better to rely on information that is expected to be meaningless, has zero dimensions, is guaranteed to be biased, has no backing, and is scientifically proven to be unreliable. Exactly what I expect from HN's crowd.
- nwienert 3y agoIf your trust for first hand accounts from people you trust is meaningless, I feel sorry for you. And if you aren’t able to intuit their biases based on your history with them and take that into account, more so. That you seemingly missed the caveat that I mentioned about “hard sciences” also not a good sign.
- krainboltgreene 3y agoI do not trust you, no, because we know as a scientific fact that your perceptions are warped. That's why we do science.
- nwienert 3y agoGood, I said people you trust, not me. You shouldn't trust me, but I trust me and my friends.
- junofan 3y agoI don’t care about homelessness in an academic sense. I care about the crackheads on my street. Anecdata is fine.