Goodhart's Corollary for Big Data: Data collected to answer a specific questionb becomes bad data. The only good data is data exhaust.
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Replying to @beka_valentine
@psygnisfive Serendipitous science is the best science (X-rays from Roentgen, Penicillin etc.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @beka_valentine
@psygnisfive Well, you can include "unexpected outcome" among serendipitous findings. Like M-M expt --> Relativity.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @beka_valentine
@psygnisfive My main target for claim is social science, so any validity for hard sciences is a plus :) But yeah, a bit more of a stretch1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@vgr i would agree that in that context, with the usual purposes that social science intends, serendipitous data is the only sensible kind1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@vgr if only because we're not really interested in what people do in labs1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@psygnisfive and outside of laws, making money off data is more interesting than making science...
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