Remundo wrote:no, but that's a big deal in the discussions around the COVID19 crisis.
this is what I call the "biaibiais neurosis".
biaibiais neurosis is to refrain from considering any figure and comparing it to another on the pretext that there are biases.
In summary, the obsession with bias focuses all the dialectical energy and ultimately prohibits any plausible reasoning, even realistic in orders of magnitude.
well no, that does not prevent reasoning. If the bias is much smaller than the observed deviation, that means that it is not a problem, and if the bias is of the same order of magnitude as the observed deviation, that means that the observed deviation n is not interpretable and may be entirely due to bias.
It is still nothing complicated to understand .... it's not "dialectic", it's more basic logic.