>>212541757>modern “science” especially social “”””””science””””” is the result of statistical misuse and bad dataholy dunning-kruger. if your "science" has any connection to surveys and data-taking and statistical correlation at all, then it's not science.
When a scientist builds a new kind of integrated circuit or optical trap or discovers a new 2-D material, it doesn't matter what his r-value is. there is no r-value.
if this is the kind of shit Taleb talks about I'm glad i never bothered reading his stuff.