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I'm reminded of Walter Lewin's analogous point about measurements from his 8.01 lectures: any measurement that you make without any knowledge of the uncert

I'm reminded of Walter Lewin's analogous point about measurements from his 8.01 lectures: any measurement that you make without any knowledge of the uncertainty is meaningless https://youtu.be/6htJHmPq0Os https://youtu.be/6htJHmPq0Os You could say that forecasts are measurements you make about the future.

lnwlebjel 3y ago
To that point, similarly: "Being able to quantify uncertainty, and incorporate it into models, is what makes science quantitative, rather than qualitative. " - Lawrence M. Krauss From https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10459 https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10459