…无门槛的归档链接 [1]：> 每当你试图强迫现实世界去做某种能被量化统计的事情时，意想不到的后果就会接踵而至。这也是两本关于数据和统计的新书的主题：一本是 Deborah Stone 的《Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters》，它警告了过度依赖数字的风险；另一本是 Tim Harford 的《The Data Detective》，它展示了避开这些陷阱的方法…
…the ungated archive [1]: > Whenever you try to force the real world to do something that can be counted, unintended consequences abound. That’s the subject of two new books about data and statistics: “Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters”, by Deborah Stone, which warns of the risks of relying too heavily on numbers, and “The Data Detective”, by Tim Harford, which shows ways of avoiding the pitfalls…
数学是不是太过于规整，以至于没啥实际用处了？我倾向于认同 Eugenia Cheng 对 Deborah Stone 的书《Counting…》的书评看法，也就是这本书很可能会给那些庸人/反数学/反科学阵营提供攻击数学和科学的弹药，但在我看来，那…
Is math too tidy to be useful? I tend to agree with the reviewer of Deborah Stone's book, Counting…, Eugenia Cheng's assessment, which is that it's likely that the book may give the philistines/anti-math/anti-science brigade ammunition to criticize mathematics and science, but, in my opinion, that's…
…无门槛的归档链接 [1]：> 每当你试图强迫现实世界去做某种能被量化统计的事情时，意想不到的后果就会接踵而至。这也是两本关于数据和统计的新书的主题：一本是 Deborah Stone 的《Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters》，它警告了过度依赖数字的风险；另一本是 Tim Harford 的《The Data Detective》，它展示了避开这些陷阱的方法…
…the ungated archive [1]: > Whenever you try to force the real world to do something that can be counted, unintended consequences abound. That’s the subject of two new books about data and statistics: “Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters”, by Deborah Stone, which warns of the risks of relying too heavily on numbers, and “The Data Detective”, by Tim Harford, which shows ways of avoiding the pitfalls…
数学是不是太过于规整，以至于没啥实际用处了？我倾向于认同 Eugenia Cheng 对 Deborah Stone 的书《Counting…》的书评看法，也就是这本书很可能会给那些庸人/反数学/反科学阵营提供攻击数学和科学的弹药，但在我看来，那…
Is math too tidy to be useful? I tend to agree with the reviewer of Deborah Stone's book, Counting…, Eugenia Cheng's assessment, which is that it's likely that the book may give the philistines/anti-math/anti-science brigade ammunition to criticize mathematics and science, but, in my opinion, that's…