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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020

    Something I've been thinking a lot recently Science deals with FACTS Politics deals with VALUE JUDGEMENTS Political decisions can use facts, but ultimately they are not scientific by design

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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020

        A scientist can tell you the costs and benefits of each political choice that you can make. But which of those is more important is not about the facts

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 Nov 2020

        It's actually somewhat impossible to have "evidence-based' policymaking, what we're really aiming for is "evidence-INFORMED" policies

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      1.  🧼 🍽️ 💯‏ @dishwash_expert 3 Nov 2020
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        there are only very little facts in science...

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      2. Pausal Živference‏ @PausalZ 3 Nov 2020
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        I will say that decision theory is useful to illustrate this since it decomposes it into: probability of an event & the utility. The probability can be informed by science (wouldn't call it FACTS though) & the utility function will always be a value judgement

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      3. Jon Huang, MPH, PhD | BLM |  🙏🏽‏ @jon_y_huang 4 Nov 2020
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        The probability of the event is also founded on value judgements, take a Bayesian prior or simply the choice of loss function or target parameter, just the domain from which the value is elicited may be more or less fraught So it's turtles all the way down

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      1. Julia L Bach‏ @JuliaLBach8 3 Nov 2020
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        Couldn’t agree more. Data is information. It does not tell you what to do with that information. Only your values can.

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      1. Iftach Yakar  🐤‏ @De_Duck_Tweets 3 Nov 2020
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        @rutihersh apropos “”common sense””

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      1. Marco Piani‏ @Marco_Piani 3 Nov 2020
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        Welcome to the world inhabited also by @BallouxFrancois :-) For that matter, one more issue is that as soon as one deals with more than one figure of merit, and there are trade-offs, it is essentially impossible to properly define an optimum to achieve.

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      1. logimech‏ @logimech1 3 Nov 2020
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        True, but value judgements also exist in the world of science

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