People would in most cases control what personal data were collected, how they are used, and with whom they are shared, treating their personal data as assets, as they do money in a bank.Yet he is less convincing when he strays from his research to make broader points about politics and economics.
It adapted the story of Ivanhoe Martin, a notorious, real-life Jamaican criminal killed by police in 1948, to make broader points about the harsh realities facing migrants from the countryside in the island's dehumanising capital, taking in the exploitation of the music industry and the illicit lure of the marijuana trade along the way.
Through an unflinching portrayal of the arrogant, aggressive, ultra-materialistic new wealthy in the Indian capital he makes broad points about India a generation after the major wave of economic reform which unleashed a savage capitalism in the country.
Sadly, "Naked Statistics" is mute on what to do about this, even though big data is a reality.The book ends by delving a little too much into specific quandaries rather than stepping back and making broader points about, say, the limitations of number-crunching in a world that is becoming more dependent on these techniques.
His claim that some of the details of the talks were not within his "sphere of competence" (see below) was unimpressive, but he managed to recover at the end of the conversation by making broader points about reform and the stance of the RMT.
Sean Penn, welcome to the corps of aging action heroes. .
Of course I realize that articles of this ilk tend to deal in generalizations and stereotypes in order to make broader observational (and comedic) points.
Officials and security experts make several broad points about why a military strike on Iran anytime soon would be an abominable idea.
The most combative section in Mr Greenspan's paper arguing that monetary policy in the early 2000s was not a cause of the housing bubble is strikingly similar to a speech given by Mr Bernanke at the American Economics Association's annual meeting in January.Both men make three broad points.
But more generally, Weisburd cautioned against focusing on a specific data point to make broader arguments in favor or against a policy.
