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Re:What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:15PM (#20979252)
"The dangers of making individual predictions from our collective characteristics" is a major area of research, especially in adtech, and the "Great Hack" documentary has showed us how well some have gotten at this for a slice of the population. A critical question for the future of data science is: "can a person really change?" And "how can we determine if they have?"