Comment by hocusPokeUs

Try to express it in anything but the language of stats you will fail because we haven't invented another language for it; we could but have no reason to with the ubiquitous nature of stats syntax and semantics

Math is not physics and physics is not math. Writing a Superman story does not mean the language and pictures represent physics

That's the difference being highlighted here; stats are not evidence of gravity and electromagnetism; physical phenomena when materials influenced by those forces are relative to local gravity, electromagnetic fields are our evidence

Stats of 1960s demographics did not capture immutable physical phenomena because entropy-> generational churn -> those people are now dead

The languages do not matter; they're just to communicate some ground truth.

Shackling society to the past through careful statistical methods relative to finance and politics to avoid societal change is not a scientific conclusion; there's no reason to use 30-40 years ago as the center of our social universe

The concern with stats consumption is we walk away from a result as if its an immutable forever conclusion as we ignore that gravity and electromagnetism, etc have not stopped changing ground truth; past truths that no longer matter to our next choices