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SS asks:
What makes statistical modeling different from, say, new age methods of trying to predict the future?
I suppose it might be somewhat unorthodox to answer any way but “Everything!”, but the more I thought about this question, the more intriguing I found it. I’ll get into the answer in the coming weeks. First I’d like to explore why there’s more to this question than might be immediately apparent.
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