Author: Robert Nelson, MD

Whether the extreme political left or the extreme right, the tails just bend back on themselves yielding the same ill-fated results: Tribalism, oppression, class warfare, mistrust; individual liberty & free thinking becomes subservient to party dogma.

Categorizing issues along the one dimensional sliding axis of liberal vs conservative always leads to contradictory outcomes. Let’s start framing debates by starting discussions around first principles, rather than issues.

Another example of how data science has been hijacked by academia & the media to foster their propaganda. Or as my algebra teacher was fond of saying…”Figures can’t lie, but liars can figure.”

The methodology of measuring data matters! It doesn’t just change the data in magnitudes, but can mean a complete opposite directional change, as this vignette illustrates.