Hyper-Certainty Principle

Hyper-Certainty Principle:

“Data quality and quantity is inversely related to advocacy certainty and ferocity.”
-David Dilworth, 2008

Thus the less and worse data available – the more certain the advocacy. This is dramatically apparent where zero data, such as opinions (or dare I say – religion), inspires huge certainty and advocacy; far more passion than facts.

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”

Cubic miles of blood has been spilled over religious beliefs, contrasted with the almost absence of dispute over gravity.

Note: This is unrelated to the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle

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