Fair enough—political conditioning has caused me to assume that any non-specialist saying “don’t trust models, just ‘look at the data’,” is the victim of some sort of anti-epistemology.
In context, it’s less likely that that’s the case, but I still think this quote is painting with much too wide a brush.
political conditioning has caused me to assume that any non-specialist saying “don’t trust models, just ‘look at the data’,” is the victim of some sort of anti-epistemology.
I would argue that it is this political conditioning itself that is the anti-epistemology.
Please, please, kids, stop fighting! Maybe Eugine_Nier & elharo are right about the necessity of looking at the world to decide whether a model’s true, and maybe Manfred & fezziwig have a point about observations and their interpretation not being cleanly separable from the use of models.
Fair enough—political conditioning has caused me to assume that any non-specialist saying “don’t trust models, just ‘look at the data’,” is the victim of some sort of anti-epistemology.
In context, it’s less likely that that’s the case, but I still think this quote is painting with much too wide a brush.
I would argue that it is this political conditioning itself that is the anti-epistemology.
I don’t suppose you could contribute substance rather than just accusation?
Please, please, kids, stop fighting! Maybe Eugine_Nier & elharo are right about the necessity of looking at the world to decide whether a model’s true, and maybe Manfred & fezziwig have a point about observations and their interpretation not being cleanly separable from the use of models.