"actual science is just regular logical thinking, except actually checking with the world to figure out what's true, and then writing it down."https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/g14usp/coronavirus_quarantine_thread_week_6/fnsvy7x/ …
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nothing is magic except magic — everything else is just people doing stuff. people thinking about things. people talking to each other. that's all it is, all it ever is!
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I'm reminded of the "only epidemiologists can do covid models!!!!" hand-wringing why tho? if they're got some speshul statistics that sounds bad, if they've got speshul domain knowledge okay maybe they can write it down and share it? catch up mfers, everything is open-source now
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sonya! supposedly? Retweeted sonya! supposedly?
sonya! supposedly? added,
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i don't know shit about data science and have been largely innumerate since high school. i am closer to the normie citizen than most stem majors. what people want is to offload their cognitive burden. hence credentialism and cargo cult scientism.
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