Living in Data by Jer Thorp

Author:Jer Thorp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

8. A Lossy Kind of Alchemy

We were taught that the world could be described, and even explained, by means of simple answers to intelligent questions. That in its essence the world was inert and dead, governed by fairly simple laws that needed to be explained and made public—if possible with the aid of diagrams. We were required to do experiments. To formulate hypotheses. To verify. We were inducted into the mysteries of statistics, taught to believe that equipped with such a tool we would be able to perfectly describe all the workings of the world—that ninety percent is more significant than five.

—OLGA TOKARCZUK

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