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  1. Actuaries are the world’s oldest data scientists. They literally make their living applying the scientific method to the law of large numbers: fucking around and finding out.

    The result is that insurance premiums price the risk with statistical certainty.

    You don’t like these rules.

    Oh, well.

    Fuck around and find out, then 🤷🏻‍♂️

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

    #housing #insurance #actuaries #floodplains #climatechange #middleclass #datascience #FAFO #scientificmethod