Matt Teichman
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first heard Jul 2009
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Elucidations · Episode 151: Witold Więcek discusses statistics and academic research · 3 May 2025
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Yeah.
So we've uncovered all of these
kind of death traps that are waiting for anyone who wants to draw on
heavy duty statistical machinery to arrive at a you know policy conclusion or like new directions for scientific research or funding for stuff.
There's all these like perils.
On the one hand, on the other hand, we need statistical machinery to help us make these decisions that gets unavoidable.
So like where do we go from here?
Are are there like um what recourse do we have to deal with these various forms of institutional erosion that we've just been discussing?
Do their statistical work.
Gotta keep yourself in business, right?
That's really interesting.
I've never heard anyone propose that before, but it immediately suggests a parallel in computer science.
Um so the parallel would be there are certain areas in computer science where you really just want people who've like devoted their whole careers to work on that.
One example would be cryptographic algorithms.
Like if you're writing a to-do list app that somebody can use on their phone, like you don't want the people who are writing that to
come up with new cryptographic algorithms that the app is going to use.
That's really finicky business.
Like you want experts who've spent their entire careers getting all the little fine points of the cryptography algorithm right.
Because otherwise your thing is not going to be secure.
So there's certain areas where
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