(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
The declining authority of statistics – and the experts who analyse them – is at the heart of the crisis that has become known as "post-truth" politics. And in this uncertain new world, attitudes towards quantitative expertise have become increasingly divided. From one perspective, grounding politics in statistics is elitist, undemocratic and oblivious to people's emotional investments in their community and nation. It is just one more way that privileged people in London, Washington DC or Brussels seek to impose their worldview on everybody else. From the opposite perspective, statistics are quite the opposite of elitist. They enable journalists, citizens and politicians to discuss society as a whole, not on the basis of anecdote, sentiment or prejudice, but in ways that can be validated. The alternative to quantitative expertise is less likely to be democracy than an unleashing of tabloid editors and demagogues to provide their own "truth" of what is going on across society.
统计——以及分析统计数据的专家——的权威不断下降,是这场被称为“后真相”政治的危机的核心
Is there a way out of this polarisation? Must we simply choose between a politics of facts and one of emotions, or is there another way of looking at this situation? One way is to view statistics through the lens of their history. We need to try and see them for what they are: neither unquestionable truths nor elite conspiracies, but rather as tools designed to simplify the job of government, for better or worse. Viewed historically, we can see what a crucial role statistics have played in our understanding of nation states and their progress. This raises the alarming question of how – if at all – we will continue to have common ideas of society and collective progress, should statistics fall by the wayside.
有办法摆脱这种两极分化吗?我们必须简单地在事实政治和情感政治之间做出选择,还是有别的方法来看待这种情况?一种方法是通过历史的镜头来看待统计数据
词语解释
1.impose on 利用,欺骗,施加影响于
Congress can impose strict conditions on the bank.
国会可能会迫使这家银行接受苛刻的条件
2.through the lens of 通过……的镜头
Looking through the lens of your current business model will most likely result in incremental changes at best.
从现有的商业模式出发,人们所能达到的最佳结果也不过是逐步的改良
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