Poorly Behaved Statistics

logic can make monsters
and well behaved statistics
- continuous everywhere
and atypical things
- differentiable nowhere

when a thing attains a number
it leaves our view forever

what number is forever

is a thing we named our never

Reviews

[KTizzle]

Statistics can't tell the whole story. I used to be so adamant about what the facts were, what science said, made logic into a god, not realizing the biases that come with statistics and supposed factual statements. Everything should be viewed critically and wholesomally, always keeping in mind there is a bigger picture to everything we see and experience.

[Davidgeo]

The deeper you get into studying and understanding the concepts behind math/chem/physics the more you realize that the 'biases' aren't coming from the numbers themselves they are coming from how we interpret the numbers. Your view that stats are inherently biased is in itself inherently biased. Interpretation will always affect things, even on a physical level the simple act of looking at something means you are affecting it on quantum scale. This is one of the main points of "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle"... the act of measuring something changes the measurement making certainty with certain measurements an objective impossibility. For example, you can't measure something's speed AND distance with 100% accuracy at the same time... measuring it's speed affects it's position, measuring it's position affects its speed. Bias is actually built into the physical natural world and part of what it means to be a good scientist is figuring out how to get around those. The bad news is that it's looking like in some cases it is an impossibility and actually might be an integral feature for reality to be able to be consciously experienced at all.

[KTizzle]

hmm so the ultimate quest for the perfect judgement is looking futile

[Davidgeo]

Maybe. It's impossible to really know with our current methods of interpreting the world around us so it's not worth worrying about too much. It might just be something we keep forgetting before remembering again in an infinite loop over an infinite space.

[KTizzle]

like a cat and mouse hehe

[Davidgeo]

Tom and Jerry might've been a documentary.

[KTizzle]

or might've been satire

[Davidgeo]

Yeah, probably. But I can pretend...

[Trouble]

Wow, I loved this, its' really good.It makes you sit back and think. Well done.

[Davidgeo]

Thanks. That's my favorite kind of compliment.