My post today at Intellectual Takeout:
Many people depend upon polls to predict the outcome of elections. What pollsters do appeals to all the prejudices of the post-Enlightenment modern mind: They employ a distinctive technique (thank you Rene Descartes), they focus on empirical evidence (thank you Francis Bacon), and they invoke the mathematical forms of statistics (thank you John Graunt and William Petty).
But the responsibility for making an accurate prediction of this year’s election might better have been put into the hands, not of a pollster, but a philosopher.
Read the rest here.
