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Discussion on: There Is No Substitute For Good Judgement, Especially if You Want to Be Data Driven

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the same statistic is often used to support opposing stances, the conclusions highly dependent on the worldview of the person analyzing the data.

So true, there's a lot of manipulation in data going on right now.

I've recently read an opinion that maybe one of the issues in the foundations of how we use AI now is the research for the perfect answer, trying to substitute human judgement with the machine's. Instead, the scientist proposed, to embrace fallibility and let the machine, when obviously feasible, output a few possible answers.

The article was this one: We Need an FDA For Algorithms.