Steven Hale
1 min readOct 11, 2020

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Words may be an end result from the perspective of the person who formulates a verbal explanation to encapsulate the statistical choices she / he has made. (Let's call this person the speaker.)

But from the listener's perspective, the statistical work is only beginning. The listener must decide things like:

Is the speaker reliable / knowledgeable / capable of making reasonable inferences from the data / sincere / honest / ironic / manipulative / driven by an agenda, etc.

And someone observing the listener (which could be the initial speaker, or a third party) must make similar decisions about what the listener says in response to the speaker's utterances. Then if the person observing the listener makes a statement…. It’s a hall of mirrors.

Or as you say in your subtitle, “Information is never without uncertainty.”

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Steven Hale
Steven Hale

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