And even when used in good faith, statistics tends to move toward approximate truth. Statistics can tell you the exact chance that you’ll pull a red marble out of a bag of other marbles, but until you actually pull the marble, it still can’t tell you exactly what color marble you’ll pull. Run the experiment again, and it may turn out differently next time. You never get absolute truth, only percentage approximations.
Very different than other types of math, yes, where 2+2 is always 4, and you can know it for absolute certain in every case for all of time.
Mathematics is a search for absolute truth, as proven from axioms.
Meanwhile, this is said about statistics: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
And even when used in good faith, statistics tends to move toward approximate truth. Statistics can tell you the exact chance that you’ll pull a red marble out of a bag of other marbles, but until you actually pull the marble, it still can’t tell you exactly what color marble you’ll pull. Run the experiment again, and it may turn out differently next time. You never get absolute truth, only percentage approximations.
Very different than other types of math, yes, where 2+2 is always 4, and you can know it for absolute certain in every case for all of time.