- Tags:: 📚Books
- Author:: John Kay, Mervyn King
- Genre:: Statistics
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- Source date:: 2020-03-05
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- Added to vault date:: 2023-01-01
- ISBN:: 978-1408712603
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Why did I want to read it?
As a data person, what do you do when there is simply too much uncertainty?
What did I get out of it?
tl;dr
the proper response to radical uncertainty is not to redouble our efforts to predict an unknowable future, but to develop strategies that are robust and resilient to events which we cannot anticipate. (p. xx)
When the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific body, was founded in 1660, it took as its motto ‘nullius in verba’ - today translated informally as ‘take nobody’s word for it’ (p. 55)