"But there is a more severe aspect of naive empiricism. **I can use data to disprove a proposition, never to prove one**. I can use history to refute a conjecture, never to affirm it." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[asymmetric-distributions]], [[data-analytics]], [[statistics]], [[forecasting]], [[making-decisions]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]