Showing posts with label variance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label variance. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Fetish for Variation

Political science, and maybe all causal science, is better with variance than with invariance, with change than with constancy.

I didn't know where else to put this, so here it is.

Nietsche: "what we are used to is most difficult ... to see" (quoted in Zerubaviel 2018, 8). So this is like a drunk under the lamppost issue.

Let this serve as a scratchpad for this theme.