Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
We use highly sophisticated algorithms and data to help us understand the world around us, but how much does the approach really tell us? The uncertainty and unpredictability of the world is not easily reducible to statistics.
Brent talks to Michael Blastland, author of “The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets”, about the uncertainty of the world around us, the negative effects of false confidence, and the challenges of using data to guide COVID-19 policy.
The post The Limits of Science: How our Obsession with Data Interferes with our Pursuit of Knowledge appeared first on American Enterprise Institute – AEI.
Subscribe to AEI's Hardly Working by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.
“It is the curious task of economics to show man how little he knows about what he imagines he can design.” I imagine that, since F. A. Hayek was an economist, he somehow felt this problem was somehow limited to the field of economics. Perhaps I ought to go with an older authority:
“Professing to be wise, they became fools.” Romans 1:22