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'''Work life''': An unwanted outcome you didn’t expect and don’t think you should be blamed for. | '''Work life''': An unwanted outcome you didn’t expect and don’t think you should be blamed for. | ||
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We are, as the JC frequently complains, in swoon to the reducibility of all things. This usually involves converting all things that we do and | We are, as the JC frequently complains, in swoon to the [[Reductionism|reducibility]] of all things. This usually involves converting all things that we do and that happen to us into numerical [[data]] points. Data points, in themselves, are no more naturally [[effable]] than “things that happen to us”, of course, but numbers have the quality of submitting easily to aggregation and symbolic manipulation statistical techniques, in a way that “things that happen to us” do not. | ||
One can calculate an mean median and mode of a number, and one can subject standardised events to probability calculations. In the same way that I can calculate the probability of rolling consecutive sixes on a die (1/36), so we can calculate the probability of rain tomorrow, a tax cut in the spring, or a thirty point intraday drop in the NASDAQ. | One can calculate an mean median and mode of a number, and one can subject standardised events to probability calculations. In the same way that I can calculate the probability of rolling consecutive sixes on a die (1/36), so we can calculate the probability of rain tomorrow, a tax cut in the spring, or a thirty point intraday drop in the NASDAQ. | ||