Is the following that you wrote your own assessment or are you quoting someone? I believe it’s yours. Regardless --spot on as usual. “We are awash in data and no one has the time to personally read any but a tiny fraction of it. Furthermore studies can be easily manipulated - consciously or unconciously, intentionally or not - to produce certain results or give the impression of certain results...there is data or a study available to ‘prove’ any claim you want to make. What matters, then, is not what the data says, but who can yell the loudest...”
I always enjoy reading your thoughts on different subjects both here and on Twitter. Always very thoughtful and informative.
When things like this crazy stove issue come up out of the blue, I am starting to get in the habit of checking to see what story they are trying to distract us from.
I think your point 7 above applies nicely to electric vehicles and ICE vehicles as well.
Great article! I'm retired (former college professor/researcher) and spend a good chunk of my days doing what you described. It's exhausting but necessary to (try to) be informed.
Social media wound up being a great vehicle for demagoguery and immediacy of feeling, which is immediately expressed. Were we better off in the '90s with static, text-based web pages that people made as hobbies?
Is the following that you wrote your own assessment or are you quoting someone? I believe it’s yours. Regardless --spot on as usual. “We are awash in data and no one has the time to personally read any but a tiny fraction of it. Furthermore studies can be easily manipulated - consciously or unconciously, intentionally or not - to produce certain results or give the impression of certain results...there is data or a study available to ‘prove’ any claim you want to make. What matters, then, is not what the data says, but who can yell the loudest...”
I always enjoy reading your thoughts on different subjects both here and on Twitter. Always very thoughtful and informative.
Of course all great minds quote themselves...! (Ahem. :) )
When things like this crazy stove issue come up out of the blue, I am starting to get in the habit of checking to see what story they are trying to distract us from.
I think your point 7 above applies nicely to electric vehicles and ICE vehicles as well.
Great article! I'm retired (former college professor/researcher) and spend a good chunk of my days doing what you described. It's exhausting but necessary to (try to) be informed.
Social media wound up being a great vehicle for demagoguery and immediacy of feeling, which is immediately expressed. Were we better off in the '90s with static, text-based web pages that people made as hobbies?
The younger internet was a friendlier place... some people give the higher barrier of entry a lot of credit for that fact, dunno.