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Bob Jacobs's avatar

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Not Mark Twain

I think the rationalist mantra of "If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics" will turn out to hurt our information landscape much more than it helps.

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Charles OuGuo's avatar

> In my world, you generally want models to have strong conceptual justifications or empirical validation with existing data before you go making decisions based off their predictions: this fails at both.

Thank you for putting succinctly into words what I've been feeling for months. Thanks for all this invaluable work; I hope this post gets a ton of views and subsequent critique itself.

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