Episode
Better Scientific Modeling for Ecological & Social Justice with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 7)
COMPLEXITY · Jun 8, 2020 · 40 min
Mathematical models of the world — be they in physics, economics, epidemiology — capture only details that researchers notice and deem salient. Rather than objective claims about reality, they encode (and thus enact) our blind spots. And the externalities created by those models — microscopic pathogens invisible to the naked eye, or differences in the social network structures of two…