167 | Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman
Data Stories
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Is There a Single Right Way to Solve a Problem?
I was thinking too, like as Andrew was talking about anomalies, like should you have to go out explicitly searching for anomalies to break a theory or if we were all honest scientists, could we kind of through our own, just seeing the data that we collect find anomalies? If we're willing enough to admit when our mindset is not right, then we should be seeing probably anomalies a lot. Well, this is kind of related to this like unitary nature of consciousness thing or even the idea that we talked a bit earlier of having a plan. It seems pretty fundamental to mathematics. The way cognition works in general, not just human brains, it seems like there needs to be this executive function and
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