Good morning! How are you? I have childcare *all day* today, so watch out world.
In the meantime, in case you were thinking I was bringing some not-very scienceyness to my concerns about data-driven decisions in British govt, I bring you 3 (three!) *actual men* who are *academics* with diff variants of the same.
Firstly, learning from our friends in N America who sadly got to this sorry state a few years before us, here is @CT_Bergstrom 
Secondly, @d_spiegel on why counting things is not as simplistic a measure as it may first appear theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
And lastly, Prof Paul Nurse on the harms of opaque and secretive decision making theguardian.com/world/2020/aug…
True, these are all in the Guardian, so perhaps this is a conspiracy of the liberal elite. I’ll let you decide. *Meanwhile*, just going to leave one more piece of evidence nodding to my concern about Dominic Cummings’ faith in automagical numbers.
Actually evidence is too strong a word. This is a stone cold reckon. Anyway, remember the terrible DARPA PDF, and the conviction that maths geniuses will save the dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/201809…
Thinking about the very gifted mathematicians I have known, I suspect that Cummings might believe that geniuses don’t need to show their working. That shouting “42!” loudly is good enough.
Anyway anyway, let me not waste this whole, glorious, sainted day of childcare on Twitter.
