circumrational work that makes Statistics work in the real world:pic.twitter.com/R2TuqzXTcJ
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circumrational work that makes Statistics work in the real world:pic.twitter.com/R2TuqzXTcJ
Related: I’m still trying to think through the implications of this tweet from @hardscihttps://twitter.com/hardsci/status/1069755156336599040 …
I can immediately see doing some of these things in my scientific work. E.g. by formulating my research questions and methods so that they are rationally workable. A necessary task to get work done.
Yes! Exactly!
It’s rationality or not-rationality, no? But why expect not-rationality to work? We shouldn’t because reality isn’t chaotic (even if it were, irrational methods wouldn’t work). There exist regularities in reality and so regularity-finding methods (also called “reason”) can work.
Note *can* work, not *must* work because we are fallible (and problems are inevitable.)
Reminds me of this old essay about the popularity of linear models. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ram/art/essay/linear/ … The decision to use an "inaccurate" model is maybe not quite as fuzzy as you are calling circumrational, but the fencing off the places where it breaks down is the same.
I work in astrophysics in the domain where we want to connect nonlinear astrophysical dynamics modelling with the world of observations, which relies on often relatively linear fitting. This is a challenging place to be, as I need to be conversant with the both worlds. ...(1/2)
I like the phrase but I also like “rationalization”, though you may or may not like that fact that that sort of collapses the rationality and the circumrational into one
Oh no. Let's not do this please. There is enough confusion in the world and new words happen to be free.
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