Chance News 74: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
Submitted by Paul Alper | Submitted by Paul Alper | ||
---- | |||
"So when I hear scientists say, 'The data speak for themselves,' I cringe. Data never speak. And data generally and most often are politically and socially inflected." | |||
<div align=right>Andrew J. Hoffman, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan</div align=right> | |||
As quoted in [http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/taking-on-climate-skepticism-as-a-field-of-study/?hpw Q. and A.: Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study], | |||
Green Blog, ''New York Times'', 9 April 2011 | |||
Submitted by Bill Peterson | |||
==Forsooth== | ==Forsooth== | ||
==Item 1== | ==Item 1== | ||
==Item 2== | ==Item 2== | ||
Revision as of 16:58, 6 June 2011
Quotations
"The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases."
As quoted by Howard Wainer, in Picturing the Uncertain World Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 23.
Submitted by Paul Alper
"So when I hear scientists say, 'The data speak for themselves,' I cringe. Data never speak. And data generally and most often are politically and socially inflected."
As quoted in Q. and A.: Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study, Green Blog, New York Times, 9 April 2011
Submitted by Bill Peterson