(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
Few social findings arising from this kind of data analytics ever end up in the public domain. This means that it does very little to help anchor political narrative in any shared reality. With the authority of statistics waning, and nothing stepping into the public sphere to replace it, people can live in whatever imagined community they feel most aligned to and willing to believe in. Where statistics can be used to correct faulty claims about the economy or society or population, in an age of data analytics there are few mechanisms to prevent people from giving way to their instinctive reactions or emotional prejudices. On the contrary, companies such as Cambridge Analytica treat those feelings as things to be tracked.
由这类数据分析得出的社会发现最后很少能够进入公共领域,这说明它对巩固共享现实中的政治叙事的作用少之又少
But even if there were an Office for Data Analytics, acting on behalf of the public and government as the ONS does, it is not clear that it would offer the kind of neutral perspective that liberals today are struggling to defend. The new apparatus of number-crunching is well suited to detecting trends, sensing the mood and spotting things as they bubble up. It serves campaign managers and marketers very well. It is less well suited to making the kinds of unambiguous, objective, potentially consensus-forming claims about society that statisticians and economists are paid for.
即使有这么一个数据分析办公室,它能够像英国国家统计局那样代表公众和政府行事,但它是否会秉持当今自由主义者竭力捍卫的那种中立观点尚不可知
In this new technical and political climate, it will fall to the new digital elite to identify the facts, projections and truth amid the rushing stream of data that results. Whether indicators such as GDP and unemployment continue to carry political clout remains to be seen, but if they don't, it won't necessarily herald the end of experts, less still the end of truth. The question to be taken more seriously, now that numbers are being constantly generated behind our backs and beyond our knowledge, is where the crisis of statistics leaves representative democracy.
在这种新的技术和新的政治氛围下,在纷繁复杂的数据流中识别事实、预测和真相的任务将落在新的数字精英们身上
词语解释
1.arise from 起因于,产生
Emotional or mental problems can arise from a physical cause.
身体上的原因可以引起情绪或精神上的问题
2.on behalf of 代表
The settlement ends more than four years of litigation on behalf of the residents.
这次和解结束了代表居民的长达四年多的诉讼
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