re: We've become slaves to big data

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Is more information with which to make decisions a bad thing?

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Treating the purveyors of it like medieval priests who are relaying the word of God is.

If you are going to publish the results of a model used to drive trillions of dollars of spending you should be willing to publish every single bit of data input into it and every single assumption made in the model so it can be peer reviewed.