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  1. "If medical treatments, say, were
    decided on the spot by practitioners with no systematic evaluations,
    no controlled experimentation, no
    sampling to learn about populations, and no attempt at quality
    control, we as statisticians would
    consider this an ethical failing, or
    at the very least a level of public
    health malpractice revealing serious
    ignorance of research design."

    this is what I see EVERY GODDAMN DAY in the CS/IT world
    http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/ChanceEthics2.pdf #unsafesoftware #proprietarysoftware #softeng