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This usually involves converting all the things that we do and that happen to us into numerical [[data]] points. | This usually involves converting all the things that we do and that happen to us into numerical [[data]] points. | ||
But, “these that we do and that happen to us” things being the four dimensional social constructions that they are ineffable as they are, that conversion necessary involves a loss of information. | |||
Data points, in themselves, are no more naturally [[effable]] than “odd things that happen to us” from which they are extruded, of course. But numbers have the quality of submitting easily to aggregation, symbolic manipulation and statistical techniques, in a way that “odd things that happen to us” do not. | Data points, in themselves, are no more naturally [[effable]] than “odd things that happen to us” from which they are extruded, of course. But numbers have the quality of submitting easily to aggregation, symbolic manipulation and statistical techniques, in a way that “odd things that happen to us” do not. | ||