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> Factually. Whose facts? Who do you trust and is it a source I do, too? What's included their data and what isn't? How recent is the data they're using? If I

> Factually. Whose facts? Who do you trust and is it a source I do, too? What's included their data and what isn't? How recent is the data they're using? If I go by the FBI a few months ago, crime is down. But the data is only up through 2022, so someone using another source will say the FBI info is inaccurate. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2022-crime-in-the-nation-statistics https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2022-cr... > the truth still matters Maybe they matter, but there are multiple truths. > Actual reality is still very much the question for a lot of people Maybe those people don't realize that even science is our best understanding given current data. Or that our "truths" are often hazy statistical models. A sure recipe for falsehood is seeking simple answers.

crazygringo 3y ago
What are you arguing? That we're can't know anything ever? That's not very useful in any kind of practical sense. Figuring out what's going on from statistics isn't that hard if you understand how those statistics are being collected. But they sure beat whatever you, a single person, happens to see with your own eyes. Your personal experience is an almost infinitesimally small random slice. It's just not statistically significant. Statistics may always have error bars, but the errors bars around your personal sampling of one will always be incomparably larger.