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snoodog · 2989 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters
I think that its important to remember that all "Data" has a human element in it and there is an element of trust in data. The receiver of the data has to trust the collector of the data because the data is either impossible or impractical to replicate. This is especially obvious when reviewing data from say Chinese sources and you have no idea if the writer made everything up or found some sort of real discovery. This is also true for even prestigious universities where a large number (Over 50%) of studies cannot be replicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis. Without fixing this problem a lot of Data and studies that we see has a illegitimacy problem and cannot be trusted unless confirmed by multiple sources.