Template:M intro design how the laws of data science lie: Difference between revisions

These [[thin rules]] ''lie'': they give us a false comfort in the truth of the things they opine about, the same way science does.<ref>{{author|Nancy Cartwright}}, {{br|The Laws of Physics Lie}}.</ref> So there aren’t ''really'' 590 calories in that burger — it seems plausible if it is printed on the menu card, but the more permanently it is printed the less likely it is to be true. There are not really 49.57km in those directions to the airport, the DNA tests really don’t know whether you are partly Bulgarian, ten thousand steps won’t transport you to health, ten thousand hours won’t make you into a concert violinist, two litres of water won’t ward off dehydration — but you as a layperson and none the wiser, so the claim can be made and got away with. It's not independently testable.  How would you know?  Your implicit trust in untestable propositions but gets trust, and from nowhere the [[Data modernism|data modernist]]s have bootstrapped themselves into a kind of credibility.