Download This PaperKarl Popper's Superstitious Indeterminism: Is Statistics a Science?
6 Pages Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Date Written: August 30, 2016
Abstract
This paper shows how a great philosopher, like Popper, can easily fall back to a common superstitious person. This paper also criticizes the general practice by statisticians to invent ad hoc method or manipulate data to suppress errors. Instead, this paper promotes the Xenophanes spirit of discovering from uncertainties and unknowns.
Keywords: Statistics, Logic
JEL Classification: C10, C12, C18
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Choi, Hak, Karl Popper's Superstitious Indeterminism: Is Statistics a Science? (August 30, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2831928 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2831928
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