The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'
People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.
Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.
I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.
I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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