“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.
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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