curve fitting messages

via tweet [https://x.com/infobeautiful/status/1899248790076317764]:

Curve fitting methods & what they say https://xkcd.com/2048/:

curve fitting and the messages they send

lines of best fit.. of math and men.. gray research law.. graeber violence/quantification law.. et al

literacy and numeracy both elements of colonialism/control/enclosure.. we need to calculate differently and stop measuring things

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