nothing is objective
We've built an entire professional discipline around wilful blindness to the grief, desperation, and moral collapse that actually drives consumer behaviour.The industry calls this objectivity. I call it strategic sociopathy.
Strategic Sociopathy | Zoe Scaman | 19 comments
good numbers don't mean good impact. We can hit every target and still harm the system we operate in.
zoe scaman • The Work
Objectivity is a colonial demand that erases researchers from their own… | Sabrina Meherally | 10 comments
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The problem: When cultures come into contact, they experience conflicts over meanings. Other peoples do things differently; their beliefs seem obviously wrong to us. But they think our beliefs and practices are wrong. How do we know ours are right? The solution: The systematic mode tries to solve this problem by creating unarguable foundations, to
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Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.
Clayton M. Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
rather than declare a technology or institution either good or bad by its nature, we recognize instead the possibility that a technology or institution might serve useful ends until it crosses certain thresholds of scale, volume, or intensity, after which it stops serving the ends for which it was created and become, first, counterproductive and
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Off Kilter 178: Data Is An Agenda.
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