No, “Big Data” Can’t Predict the Future
By Ryan McMaken
December 11, 2015
We are being told with increasing frequency that with enough data, we can use sophisticated computing methods to predict the future. That often works with the physical sciences, but predicting human action is something else altogether. Per Bylund explains at Mises Daily.
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