> Many of the commenters on this list have missed that "evidence" and "data"
requires a fruitful context -- even to consider them! -- and that better tools
and data will only tend to help those who are already set up epistemologically
to use them wisely.<p>It is a mystery to me how this "epistemological preparedness" forms, and if/how it can be disseminated, the way a more limited piece of knowledge such as "the population of city X is Y million" can.