there's a big swirling kind of fallacy out there, related to the "whig view of history", but it includes a lot more than that progs have the last 2 centuries thing: * history has an arc * problems are solveable * things are measurable this is re pt #3 -->https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1230525632532008961 …
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2/ these dovetail together: * the inevitable trend of life is that more and more people get better and better health care * we need to be part of this process / solve the problem * let's use a survey to find out how much health care people have!
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3/ I'm sympathetic to "let's measure things and then make them better!" I mean, that's basically an engineer's job description ... and an autist's life description.
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4/ so I don't want to say "no, these are always wrong / impossible". ...but measuring things is a lot harder than one naively thinks at first. For all sorts of reasons, some of them methodological, some of them statistical, some of them epistemological. Deserves a long rant >
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5/ but I don't have time now. Later, maybe
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