What if a rational assessment of inconclusive data weighs you towards the wrong direction. Wouldn’t you then start doing worse than the dart throwing monkey?
Sure. In other words, if you get fed bad enough data then you have (so to speak) anti-knowledge. Surely this isn’t surprising?
I would just clarify though, that the data does not need to be ‘bad’ in the sense that it is false. We might have data that are accurate but misinterpret them by generalising to the larger context or mistakenly transposing them to a different one.
Sure. In other words, if you get fed bad enough data then you have (so to speak) anti-knowledge. Surely this isn’t surprising?
No, not really surprising.
I would just clarify though, that the data does not need to be ‘bad’ in the sense that it is false. We might have data that are accurate but misinterpret them by generalising to the larger context or mistakenly transposing them to a different one.