[HN Gopher] The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule (...
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The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule (1995)
Author : johntfella
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-10-01 21:06 UTC (3 days ago)
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| Manu40 wrote:
| 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.
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| 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.
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| It's nice that they include that, but I want to know more.
| Especially in politics, because liars abound are everywhere.
| johntfella wrote:
| if 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/th...
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