{"id":934,"date":"2022-04-04T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/?p=934"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:10:24","slug":"build-trustworthy-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/build-trustworthy-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Build trustworthy knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New knowledge very often is built upon inference: suppose and formulate general &#8216;laws&#8217; based on individual observations quantified in statistics. There are two major problems: prove causality (which is something different from correlation) &#8211; but also false correlations. About this theme I&#8217;d like to suggest reading \/ viewing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/spurious-correlations\">Spurious Correlations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tylervigen.com\/spurious-correlations\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.tylervigen.com\/spurious-correlations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7l-LDNl6jz4\">What are Spurious Correlations?<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What are Spurious Correlations?\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7l-LDNl6jz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WNsLcg2GQMY\">Calling Bullshit 3.3: Spurious Correlations<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calling Bullshit 3.3: Spurious Correlations\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WNsLcg2GQMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next step is not to fall into the trap of &#8216;false&#8217; knowledge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefictions.org\/\">Science Fictions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefictions.org\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.sciencefictions.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fOhb3wXFHkM\">Should We Trust Scientists?<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Should We Trust Scientists?\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fOhb3wXFHkM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QTKz34eCfQ0\">Science Fictions with Stuart Ritchie<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Science Fictions with Stuart Ritchie\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QTKz34eCfQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New knowledge very often is built upon inference: suppose and formulate general &#8216;laws&#8217; based on individual observations quantified in statistics. There are two major problems: prove causality (which is something different from correlation) &#8211; but also false correlations. About this theme I&#8217;d like to suggest reading \/ viewing: Spurious Correlations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-questions-en"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 05:39:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ebp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}