Скачать или смотреть Lies, damned lies, and statistics | John Burn-Murdoch, Abby Innes, Kenneth Cukier

Journalists John Burn-Murdoch, Kenneth Cukier and political economist Abby Innes discuss the importance of data to the contemporary age.

Is data taking over? Should we let it?

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In an ever more complex world, we think data is crucial to helping us make sense of things. Some even claim data as information is the basis of the universe. But critics claim there is a danger our trust in data is misplaced. From economic statistics to climate change data, from COVID data to political polling, we have access to more data than ever before, yet we rarely agree on what the data tells us, our predictions based on it are often wrong and we are more polarised than ever. Moreover, philosophers of science point out that data is always dependent on the theory and system used to frame and collect it.

Should we conclude that data is not objective and never free of the prejudices of those instigating and interpreting it? Does data help us to make sense of the world, or has it made us even more confused, lost, and divided? Or should we double down on data, and appreciate that most of our problems are caused by not looking at the data closely enough?

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John Burn-Murdoch is a columnist and the chief data reporter for the Financial Times where he writes the weekly Data Points column. Abby Innes is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at the LSE focusing on the UK state and empiricism. She is the teaching chair of the European Institute. Kenneth Cukier is deputy executive editor at the Economist and the host of the hugely popular weekly podcast, Babbage. Hosted by The Head of New Formats for the Financial Times, Juliet Riddell.

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00:00 Introduction
00:24 The history of quantification
02:33 The issue with data
04:00 Charts are more persuasive than words
05:38 Social media
07:15 No one ever made a decision based on a number
08:40 Soviet experiments

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