{"id":6285,"date":"2013-10-29T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T23:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6285"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T23:14:46","slug":"fake-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/fake-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"FAKE EVIDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>FAKE EVIDENCE <br \/> In some domains, &#8220;evidence&#8221; comes too late. The good news is that we have a methodology to bust these claims and make the difference between *true* and *fake* evidence.<br \/> This shows why the Law of Large Numbers makes evidence slower under fat tails (In some domains, only *negative* evidence counts). And this is the method we are using in statistics to bust sloppy and fallacious (mechanistic) thinking by applying an inferential technique on a problem for which we know the answer.<br \/> Incidentally this is exactly what Pinker doesn&#8217;t get: scientific &#8220;evidence&#8221; is NOT journalistic fact checking. And this is why I consider that advocates of GMOs on grounds of &#8220;science&#8221; are dangerous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10151797124773375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374&amp;type=1\">Timeline Photos &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAKE EVIDENCE In some domains, &#8220;evidence&#8221; comes too late. The good news is that we have a methodology to bust these claims and make the difference between *true* and *fake* evidence. This shows why the Law of Large Numbers makes evidence slower under fat tails (In some domains, only *negative* evidence counts). And this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}