Mark My Words #13B

Before the end of 2026, a new major sub-discipline, that intersects statistics and perception science, will have emerged involving the gulf between two kinds of perception: the first being what we normally consider intuitive perception of experiences, and the second being how we perceive those same experiences in terms of quantitative measurements. The new take: rather than them as an automatic push from “subjectivity” to “objectivity”, we’ll recognize them as divergent perceptions that are vulnerable to similar kinds of distortion.