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Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1

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Are You Getting Accuracy of a Particular Measurement?

We can't divine it perfectly. We are not god But only through our measurements such as blips on a radar screen coming from an aircraft Or the opacity of blobs on a scan from a tumor Our measurements don't come out precisely the same on the dot every time Instead they tend to be distributed in a bell curve end quote. Well, is that quite right? Under the popurean framework of looking at these things Observations on whether or not something happened in the world we only get that through our measurements. He says hmm Observations are theory-laden We get observations through our explanations of the observation process It's not simply go out into the world and look or measure We have

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