Counting
by Deborah Stone · first published 2020
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…the ungated archive [1]: > Whenever you try to force the real world to do something that can be counted, unintended consequences abound. That’s the subject of two new books about data and statistics: “Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters”, by Deborah Stone, which warns of the risks of relying too heavily on numbers, and “The Data Detective”, by Tim Harford, which shows ways of avoiding the pitfalls…
on “What Data Can’t Do” ↗Is math too tidy to be useful? I tend to agree with the reviewer of Deborah Stone's book, Counting…, Eugenia Cheng's assessment, which is that it's likely that the book may give the philistines/anti-math/anti-science brigade ammunition to criticize mathematics and science, but, in my opinion, that's…
on “Is math too tidy to be useful?” ↗