The best idea in Chapter 10 is... the idea of a distinction between statistics, statistical law, and statistical inference (10). There is a rough chronology that first come statistics, then come laws of statistics, then come statistical inferences. Is there also a conceptual/rational connection here? Or is there a 'statistical style of reasoning' involving statistical inference that would not necessarily take the form of law? Is the conclusion of every inductive inference necessarily a conclusion in the form of a law?
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Hacking, 'Taming', chs. 9-10
The best idea in Chapter 9 is... that, "A category of problems--pretty much what we now call 'social problems'--was created to be shared by joint experts, medical and legal" (76).
The best idea in Chapter 10 is... the idea of a distinction between statistics, statistical law, and statistical inference (10). There is a rough chronology that first come statistics, then come laws of statistics, then come statistical inferences. Is there also a conceptual/rational connection here? Or is there a 'statistical style of reasoning' involving statistical inference that would not necessarily take the form of law? Is the conclusion of every inductive inference necessarily a conclusion in the form of a law?
The best idea in Chapter 10 is... the idea of a distinction between statistics, statistical law, and statistical inference (10). There is a rough chronology that first come statistics, then come laws of statistics, then come statistical inferences. Is there also a conceptual/rational connection here? Or is there a 'statistical style of reasoning' involving statistical inference that would not necessarily take the form of law? Is the conclusion of every inductive inference necessarily a conclusion in the form of a law?
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