nothing is objective
The issue with even this “trend” is that so much of cultural critique today remains observational.
Problematic considering the tiny narrative bubbles we’re each in.
Without layering any quantitative analysis into our stories, fads remain just reactions to reactions. Emptiness.
Liked Tweetstwitter.comIt takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal version, or seemingly "objective" or professional version will pop into modeling and mapping, and lose the necessary tangibility of the details – thus losing access to the realms of possibility to meet
... See moregood numbers don't mean good impact. We can hit every target and still harm the system we operate in.
zoe scaman • The Work
This two-cultures thinking, moreover, distorts the empirical realities of data collection, the challenging work of forcing unruly phenomena to speak in clean, distinct, ideally quantitative phrases
Melanie Feinberg • The Myth of Objective Data
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
Changing a culture is a major undertaking, and a data culture is no exception. But thinking of these issues as cultural in the first place can help to open the imagination