Why is this interesting? - Tuesday, April 9
On data, intuition, and the modern moment
Noah here. This week’s New Yorker has a piece about the age-old battle between statisticians and scouts in baseball. It’s ostensibly a review of a new book by Christopher Phillips called Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball, but mostly it's about the large grey sea that sits between quantitative and qualitative judgement. The bo…
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