Sights, Data, and the Environment

I have taken a walk-through time: seasons come and go. However, this came to my eyes. To create opportunities for yourself and others, one crucial factor or actor remains unbreakable. The eyes must see what will cause the mind to think, question, and answer.

Perception is critical, and those who know its power use it to make better societies or civilizations that self-sustain and go into extinction. Physical and social scientists who excel understand that space for critical thinking is the birthplace of new products and ideas.

I exist in both worlds: recent discoveries prove that Data is critical to progress in our time. Not just data, but one with integrity and quality grounded by how it is gathered. Statistics can mislead: you can only be as good as what you “eat.”

Environmental factors have a causal effect on the quality of data gathered. Implicitly, you see poverty because the environment appears poor; however, what about the unseen wealth, hidden or untapped? Therefore, and sometimes, hasty conclusions are made that we are rich or poor, able or unable, right or wrong, whereas that which was used for decision-making was in itself “unsure”—data source(s) did not account for all the outcomes, or rather, most of the important probabilities. The test for explicity was not clear.

It is difficult to define all the data sets required for decision-making explicitly. You need not know everything but must respect everything in a cause-effect relationship. Politics, personalities, weather, games, or even a conflict can radically change what has been predicted. We have not forgotten about COVID-19.

To end, I have my fears, and they come from the implicit collation of data with poor integrity and quality. Poor data is not bad, but I speak to data sets gathered with intentions to skew the observed narrative and, therefore, the correlation.

Let us be responsible: Data, indeed, is power.