"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."
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**Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[asymmetric-distributions]], [[data-analytics]], [[statistics]], [[forecasting]], [[making-decisions]]
**Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]