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Lily Hu is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale and a contributing editor at Boston Review. She works in philosophy of science and social science and political and social philosophy.
Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.
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