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minus-squareCalipherJones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoI’m saying human systems and the ideas surrounding them can’t be quantified by a single graph.
minus-squareAjen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI didn’t say they could be. But graphs can be helpful in understanding certain aspects of those systems/ideas.
minus-squareCalipherJones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoI suppose my nitpick is that it simplifies things so much that it obfuscates what we’re actually discussing a lot of the time. It becomes an argument of this vs that instead of what do we have to do to achieve common shared goals.
minus-squareAjen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI disagree, I think having a common frame of reference is useful in discussing opposing viewpoints.
I’m saying human systems and the ideas surrounding them can’t be quantified by a single graph.
I didn’t say they could be. But graphs can be helpful in understanding certain aspects of those systems/ideas.
I suppose my nitpick is that it simplifies things so much that it obfuscates what we’re actually discussing a lot of the time.
It becomes an argument of this vs that instead of what do we have to do to achieve common shared goals.
I disagree, I think having a common frame of reference is useful in discussing opposing viewpoints.