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From Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
An example of when logic does not, perhaps, provide the ideal solution.
While this isn’t what this blog is usually about, I feel like I need to talk about something I came across recently. Here’s what you can do when you take something out of context:
Seems damning, doesn’t it? I’m feeling more Republican already. But just googling “Roland Fryer” found this New York Times article about the study mentioned in this graphic. It mentions, among other things:
- that the study “did find bias against blacks in every other type of force, like the use of hands or batons”
- and “looked only at what happens once the police have stopped civilians, not at the chances of being stopped in the first place,”
- and that Professor Fryer “totally agree[s] that deciding who to stop in a police stop is highly
problematic and there certainly may be racial bias in that decision.”
Snopes also has more than a few things to say, mostly along the lines of how not all “studies” are created equal, and that a lot can get lost in translation between professional work and the media.
In short: don’t believe every catchy fact you see, and look for what it’s not saying, even if you agree with it. (To everyone, not just the people I disagree with. Fryer’s research could well be right, but not in the way this “gotcha-sjws” picture implies.)
New FYFD video! How much does a rider’s position on the bike affect the drag they experience? To find out I teamed up with folks from the University of Colorado at Boulder and at SimScale to explore this topic using high-speed video, flow visualization, and computational fluid dynamics.
Check out the full video below, and if you need some more cycling science before the Tour de France gets rolling, you can find some of my previous cycling-related posts here. (Image and video credit: N. Sharp; CFD simulation - A. Arafat)
ETA: Please note that the video contained in this post was sponsored by SimScale.
