Thanks to meteoric advances in computational power, it is now possible to take abundant data from a wide range of sources, and use statistical modelling to prove… um, whatever bullshit conclusion you hoped to prove in the first place.
For all the excitement of the information age, we must remember that self-serving delusions like nothing better than large quantities of information.
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